From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 3751@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3751: 23.0.95; C-h H does not display hourglass cursor
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:27:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ty8bel9g.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ws6o21x4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:11:19 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> On MS Windows, "C-h H" takes as much as 10 seconds (on a 3GHz
> machine), but no hourglass cursor is displayed during that time,
> making it look like nothing is going on.
>
> If displaying an hourglass cursor during the time Emacs prepares to
> display etc/HELLO is difficult, at the very least please display some
> informative message that ends with "please wait..." in the echo area.
Adding a "please wait..." message is easy enough, but is there any way
to determine when the wait is over? Emacs hangs in redisplay, probably?
And just leaving the "please wait..." after the wait is over wouldn't be
nice, either.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-17 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-04 10:11 bug#3751: 23.0.95; C-h H does not display hourglass cursor Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-17 6:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-09-17 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-18 8:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-02 6:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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