progress-reporter (was: CEDET merge)

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> I made it so that you must use progress-reporter-pulse to update a
>>> pulsing reporter, but I realized afterwards that it would be easy enough
>>> to have progress-reporter-update check to see if the reporter is a
>>> pulsing one or not and call the correct function underneath without the
>>> caller having to think about it.
>>
>>> If you think this is a good idea I can make the change.
>>
>> Yes, that would be even better, thank you,
>
> I've attached the patches that implement this. Pulsing reporters can use
> progress-reporter-update like normal ones and can have their messages
> changed using progress-reporter-force-update.

I'm wondering whether this patch could be applied to the trunk. I'd
like to use it in Tramp, for huge copies, and alike.

> thanks!
> Phil

Best regards, Michael.