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From: Derek Upham via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 72433@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72433: 29.4; Inconsistent "Loading" message suppression for batch mode
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 18:08:02 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115600804.1109793.1722701282328@ichabod.co-bxl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86le1euooo.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Aug 2, 2024 at 11:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:Yes, and this is done on purpose: in batch mode the second line is
redundant because all the lines remain visible on the screen, whereas
in the interactive case the user can only see the last message (in the
echo area), and thus leaving the "Loading..." message there could be
misinterpreted as if the load is still in progress.
Got it.  Is it worth turning this into a code comment, before that second block?

/* Support interactive users with extra progress messages,
   following minibuffer conventions. */

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-03  1:05 bug#72433: 29.4; Inconsistent "Loading" message suppression for batch mode Derek Upham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-03  6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-03 16:08   ` Derek Upham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-08-04  8:58     ` Eli Zaretskii

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