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: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:59:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcm6cbwi.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87obrzo8qy.fsf@gmx.de> <8762e75k1o.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ipi76xmc.fsf@gmx.de> <87ipi6e0a1.fsf@gmx.de> <87zkbicg8r.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331812826 11981 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2012 12:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 15 13:00:25 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 1S89Lz-0002RV-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:00:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S89Ly-0003Jq-Ob for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47790) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S89Lo-00032S-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S89Lf-0006hH-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:34863) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S89Lf-0006gD-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2012 12:00:01 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB950D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.149.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 15 Mar 2012 13:00:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19ZeogUVNlZdvfFFtVhwUfAMb2ykHyiUcIhsYIp5N 0vx3WkqeSB4800 In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:22:46 -0400") 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: 213.165.64.23 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:149081 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams writes: >> Anything goes, of course. But I fear we would break the minibuffer >> (which is a special buffer, with special handling). And there is still >> the echo area problem. > > I didn't realize that was a separate problem. Could you explain further? (info "(elisp)The Echo Area") > Yeah... but of course I'm looking at three modelines in my frame right > now. The problem of having no central place to display global state is > well known around here, though. Maybe just use the modeline of the > leftmost window immediately above the minibuffer? We are speaking about asynchronous saving of a buffer. The progress-reporter shall only touch the modeline which belongs to that buffer. Best regards, Michael.