From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: When is hourglass shown?
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:30:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4228C578.4090600@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsm3bxlrn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>Can someone please tell me when an hourglass is shown on X Emacs? Is it
>>>shown for an operation like ediff-buffers (that takes a long time on my pc)?
>>>Is it shown for indent-region?
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>>Not for indent-region (it should be IMHO).
>>
>>
>
>Are you sure? I thought it was command-agnostic (i.e. it simply displays
>an hourglass if more than X seconds have passed since Emacs was last ready
>to process keyboard input).
>
>[ ... trying out (setq indent-line-function (lambda () (while t))) ... ]
>
>Duh! You're right. Hmm... how does this thing work?
>
I only tried M-x indent-region. For that no hourglass is shown. But if
invoked with M-C-\ an hourglass is shown. Turns out that M-x ... calls
minibuffer-complete-and-exit, and that function throws so the start
hourglass action is unwind and canceled. A bit inconsistent here.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-04 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-04 17:34 When is hourglass shown? Jan D.
2005-03-04 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-04 20:30 ` Jan D. [this message]
2005-03-05 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-05 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-05 11:17 ` Jan D.
2005-03-05 12:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-05 12:38 ` Jan D.
2005-03-06 0:41 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-10 19:10 ` Jan D.
2005-03-05 15:11 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-05 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-05 18:18 ` Jan D.
2005-03-05 20:11 ` Nick Roberts
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2005-03-02 16:05 Lennart Borgman
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