From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Loading" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:55:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87ipi76xmc.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87obrzo8qy.fsf@gmx.de> <8762e75k1o.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331736928 22022 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2012 14:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 14 15:55:27 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 1S7pbp-00041c-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:55:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50632 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pbp-0003FV-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pbi-0003Ea-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pbc-0004LK-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:55:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:45607) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pbc-0004L8-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2012 14:55:10 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB91DD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.145.221] by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 14 Mar 2012 15:55:10 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+sJ1IoBcysW1aIXoDTNQlydX0vtpXce2d7KS+gzZ OUiWshvNr4AHIQ In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 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:149049 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > I think a simple spinner (that doesn't move stuff around in the mode > line) is to be preferred. We just want to communicate to the user that > "we're waiting for something", not to flash lots of details at the > user. If we want the latter, we can use the echo area... I would prefer the help area of the spinning char. As usual in the modeline. As said already, the minibuffer/echo area shall be usable during the async operation. At least in my use case :-) Best regards, Michael.