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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flipping url-show-status default
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwwpkchk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hbh6ataa.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:20:45 +0200")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> The url library is very chatty.  I think most users would get a more
> pleasant experience if url-show-status defaulted to nil.  I mean, our
> other network libraries don't issue tons of messages every time you
> transfer data, so I don't really see why url fetching should be
> different.

I don't think setting url-show-status to nil is the right thing; it's
pretty important to show something, particularly for synchronous
fetching, so that the user knows the connection isn't hung.  But we can
probably comment out some of the less important messages in url-http.el.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-01 14:20 Flipping url-show-status default Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 14:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:13 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-10-01 18:23   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 22:17     ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-01 22:20       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 22:29         ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-02  2:06           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-02  2:23             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-02  2:24               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-02  2:58             ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-02 13:07               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 18:34   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 22:21     ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-02  7:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 15:13       ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-02  7:34     ` James Cloos
2010-10-02 14:54       ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-02 19:21         ` James Cloos
2010-10-03 12:50           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-03 22:34             ` James Cloos
2010-10-05 16:51 ` Davis Herring
2010-10-05 16:58   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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