bug#53877: 29.0.50; [PATCH] async Gnus/nnml

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Why can't you bind `nnmail-article-buffer' before calling the splitting
>> function?
>
> I spoke too quickly. The idea was that with a temporay buffer I could
> run multiple splitting in "parallel". But rebinding just *one* global
> variable won't help much here.

Are you sure? AFAIK this was Dick Chiang's approach to threading server
updates: let-binding the value of `nntp-server-buffer' within the thread
function. As far as I know it worked okay. The splitting function and
code run within it will have a separate value of
`nnmail-article-buffer'.