>>>>> Joshua Barrett writes:
> nnnrss is still synchronous like the rest of gnus, and does cause
> emacs to freeze. I'd really like it and nnatom to be asynchronous,
> but I think that would require appreciably more work. I've
> enrolled all my feeds in the agent and configured the demon to
> fetch only if emacs has been idle for some time. However, both
> nnrss and nnnrss can be configured to use curl by setting
> `mm-url-use-external` and `mm-url-program` accordingly, so that
> works at least
I haven't had time to look at your code yet (so I don't know if you used
a similar method), but at least with nnatom you can use a local file as
the server address, which allows you to fetch a feed periodically
independently of Emacs, with nnatom only in charge of parsing the local
file.
Daniel
