From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Loading" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:07:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83haxrw1pf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87obrzo8qy.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331744882 25334 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2012 17:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 14 18:08:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7rg7-0002rV-KH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:07:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7rg6-0001au-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33531) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7rfx-0001Oj-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7rfq-0000HI-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7rfq-0000HD-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M0V00400WU9GK00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:07:41 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.179.236]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M0V002U2WWSEZW0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:07:41 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87obrzo8qy.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149052 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:02:45 +0100 > > The progress-reporter, spinning in the echo area, is not an option, > because the minibuffer shall be usable. Agreed. > Therefore I'm thinking about to reactivate the old proposal of a > progress-reporter extension, spinning \ | / in the modeline (more > precisely: in `mode-line-remote'). Beware: I think redisplaying the mode line triggers redisplay of the entire frame. If I'm right (and I'm not 100% sure I am), then a spinning indicator in the mode line would be a nuisance, because it will cause an annoying flickering on display.