>>>>> 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