From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:43:48 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83mu73eagw.fsf@gnu.org> <3HKWEOXkDWKA21dsCFgMgmFIMPR3VwPgNzfTjd7I5Igswu07sfhZaP-td1X4Py66xAD6kDLyLjVmujFkuabkY_S9ZZhgGZwi0IaAV6RS59U=@protonmail.com> <83ftcve6gl.fsf@gnu.org> <83blnje5ro.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ndame , ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="75343"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "40774@debbugs.gnu.org" <40774@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 22 20:44:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKM1-000JW9-Uo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:44:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56020 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLz-0003Vr-OL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLr-0003Vf-L7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLr-00074Q-1K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLq-00073d-6a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLq-0004jm-3q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: ndame Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40774 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40774-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40774.158758104118206 (code B ref 40774); Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Apr 2020 18:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53217 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLp-0004jO-AQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40132.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.132]:34465) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRKLn-0004j8-QE for 40774@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:00 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587581033; bh=NYSyTgM3U+lRVwihJum6a9A9PlgwxAwqWQpw8lYcL7U=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=qHhhQ1TiYOYi12/VtiQMnU9BR1mR2G45QgSNwjJ9IXOLNcb7lPrV7nhy1ZXUz0Zqb nk6fhz/yjuQhJkcJkne0ogruOVNggpTTPeZrdqp0qP6WVQ9v/0dzjCHgXqIHxJtazM s1fuqdsFyTRJkbXpZIMwPlaS+atrlg40nrqs6Cf4= In-Reply-To: <83blnje5ro.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178824 Archived-At: > > What if the user is looking at another application, and Emacs runs a > prolonged operation of sorts, for example, indexing some large > directory? I don't get what you're getting at. If the prolonged operation does not stop with an error then nothing happens. If the operation stops with an error then the error will be in the echo area when the user switches back to emacs. This feature only comes into play if a message is printed to the echo area, the message is an error message (sent by error, signal, etc.) and the user is idle in emacs. Then the error (or errors) is stored, so if some other progress message arrives when the user is idle then it does not hide the error, it stays in the echo area.