Re: "Loading"

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

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

Hi Lars,

> shr downloads images asynchronously, but there isn't anything to say
> "we're still downloading".  I think there should be.
>
> shr just inserts a "*" character as a placeholder now.  Perhaps it would
> make sense to insert an animated image instead displaying a "loading"
> symbol?  Or we could go old style with a spinning - \ | / - thing.

These days, I have started to implement asynchronous inserting/writing
of buffers, which are bound to a remote file. There I have also the
problem to indicate the user, that the operation hasn't been finished yet.

The progress-reporter, spinning in the echo area, is not an option,
because the minibuffer shall be usable. 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').

I believe it would be a good thing, if running asynchronous operations
are made visible consistently in Emacs. Maybe we could agree on the same
function?

Best regards, Michael.