Re: w3 under development or not?

[Shane]

bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström) writes:

> Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
> > Anyone working on w3 stuff?
> 
> That's a very good question.
> 
> > Like
> >
> > * not causing emacs to hang while looking for a server
> 
> That's a problem with Emacs not being multi-threaded, rather than
> w3. You can expect this kind of behaviour to disappear some time after
> Emacs has finally been ported to Guile.

I know this is slightly off-topic, but I have the same problem when I
download my email under GNUs. It hangs for a long time while 50 of the
latest "Microsoft Internet Security patches" or other crap are
retrieved. During this wait, I would prefer to be working in a another
Emacs window, but Emacs won't accept any input.

As suggested, is it a "design feature" of Emacs rather than
configuration problem?

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