From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When is hourglass shown? Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:18:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42289C1F.7060709@swipnet.se> <01c52170$Blat.v2.4$97d80e60@zahav.net.il> <01c521a8$Blat.v2.4$4d2acc80@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110047516 6006 80.91.229.2 (5 Mar 2005 18:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 19:31:56 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7e46-0005cM-N4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7eKJ-0003sL-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D7eK0-0003nM-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D7eJr-0003jf-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7eJq-0003fT-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D7dsV-0000lG-5p; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:19:51 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.210] [83.226.180.210]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050305181949.QYPH429.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:19:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <01c521a8$Blat.v2.4$4d2acc80@zahav.net.il> Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34224 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34224 >> >> This does not always work, as in the case of M-x indent-region versus >> C-M-\. Both starts the hourglass timer, but the first stops it >> directly afterwards. > > Actually, I think it did work very well: it shows you that the > hourglass was armed, i.e. that Emacs _meant_ for it to appear if the > operation took enough time. If you want to know why it didn't > actually happen, an additional breakpoint where the timer is disabled > would have shown you the code which did that. > I know exactly where now :-). Not sure what to do about though. Also, starting and cancelling hourglass is done frequently, so running with those breakpoints enabled makes for a lot of continue in gdb. Not impossible though. Jan D.