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Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Stefan Kangas writes: > >> I was talking about showing something in the actual Emacs window, not >> just changing the mouse pointer. The mouse pointer can change also when >> some program has just crashed, so users won't necessarily take this as a >> sign that "everything is okay, just give us a minute and we'll be back". > > And there's no hourglass pointer in terminal Emacs (which apparently is > almost as popular as GUI Emacs for some reason), so perhaps it's worth > having a spinning thing somewhere. In the mode line, for instance. > > However, if we want that, perhaps it shouldn't be tied to > with-delayed-message, but work exactly like the hourglass -- i.e., start > spinning whenever Emacs is busy for a while. > > I'm not at all sure whether there'd be any negative repercussions to > spinning a glyph in the mode line area (for instance -- what about if > you're running over a slow ssh connection?), but perhaps it's worth > exploring and see how goes? Let's continue discussing this as a new bug.