From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 8118@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8118: 24.0.50; `eval-minibuffer' should show message "Evaluating..."
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:58:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1D266AE18AC4C5B9E7E00939846A763@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3pqlcn1qh.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
> > M-: (eval-minibuffer "Sexp: ")
> > Type: global-map RET
> >
> > As you can see from this example, it would be good if we showed some
> > feedback to let users know that Emacs is thinking. ;-)
>
> No, I disagree. That would be very annoying, in my opinion, so I'm
> closing this report.
Why would it be annoying?
It is standard Emacs UI practice to show such a progress message:
Loading foo.el...
Loading foo.el...done
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 18:58 bug#8118: 24.0.50; `eval-minibuffer' should show message "Evaluating..." Drew Adams
2011-07-14 18:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 20:58 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-07-16 16:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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