[Orgmode] Re: Behavior of Gnus when called from an hyperlink

[Tassilo Horn]

Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden>
writes:

Hi Sébastien,

> When stepping with SPC, the "arrow mark" (in the left fringe) stayed 5
> mins on line 487:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>      ;; Use `head' function.
>      ((fboundp head)
>       (setq res (funcall head article (gnus-group-real-name group)
>>                        (nth 1 gnus-command-method))))
>                                                     ^
>                                                  cursor after first paren
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> If I understand well, it wasted all the time evaluating
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     (nth 1 gnus-command-method)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I can't understand anything from the above... Someone does?

Not really.  Picking the second element out of a list must not take 5
minutes!  What's the value of `gnus-command-method' when this happens?
One SPC before the hang, that variable is evaluated and its contents are
printed to *Messages*.

For example, checking with an org-gnus link to an article in a gmane
group, the value of `gnus-command-method' at that time was

  (nntp "Gmane" (nntp-address "news.gmane.org"))

here, and picking out "Gmane" took no time at all...

Bye,
Tassilo