GNU bug report logs - #38136
[PATCH] Make gnus-group-get-new-news a non blocking thread

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com

Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 14:57:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Fixed in version 27.2

Done: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>, 38136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38136: [PATCH] Make gnus-group-get-new-news a non blocking thread, bug#38136: [PATCH] Make gnus-group-get-new-news a non blocking thread
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:01:08 +0100
>>>>> On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 19:31:17 -0800, Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> said:

    Eric> dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com writes:

    >> From 834327d458c54bb0e1f25c6259ee640df0ba8b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
    >> From: dickmao <none>
    >> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 09:51:59 -0500
    >> Subject: [PATCH] Make `gnus-group-get-new-news` a non-blocking thread

    Eric> I'm looking forward to testing this out this weekend!

    Eric> Just a quick NB, which you should feel free to ignore: you'll probably
    Eric> get much better uptake on these tickets if you include with them a
    Eric> head-to-toe prose report on what they accomplish and why (in detail).
    Eric> Emacs has a lot of bug reports, and a small number of bug hunters, and a
    Eric> multi-hundred-line patch without so much as a "howdy-do" on it is ripe
    Eric> to be ignored. Just something to consider.

That, plus the patch has spurious whitspace changes, and things like
the below, which makes it all harder to read.

>>>>> On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:56:41 -0500, dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com said:
    dick> diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
    dick> index cbb6879223..7d4ed7cab6 100644
    dick> --- a/src/fns.c
    dick> +++ b/src/fns.c
    dick> @@ -2917,8 +2917,7 @@ require_unwind (Lisp_Object old_value)
 
    dick>  DEFUN ("require", Frequire, Srequire, 1, 3, 0,
    dick>         doc: /* If feature FEATURE is not loaded, load it from FILENAME.
    dick> -If FEATURE is not a member of the list `features', then the feature is
    dick> -not loaded; so load the file FILENAME.
    dick> +Loaded features are recorded in the list variable `features'.
 
    dick>  If FILENAME is omitted, the printname of FEATURE is used as the file
    dick>  name, and `load' will try to load this name appended with the suffix
    dick> -- 
    dick> 2.23.0




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