From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Silent autoloading
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:37:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50811100037y7c490fa7x298579c45ce15082@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5bcpdeg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> You're complaining about Emacs freezing for a little while without
> giving any clue to the user about what's going on. That's indeed
> a problem. But this rarely happens for autoloading, and in many cases
> it happens independently from autoloading.
>
> Maybe the right solution is to link this to the hourglass-mouse-cursor:
> have a global variable busy-message, and when the
> hourglass timer expires, not only we should change the mouse-cursor to
> an hourglass, but we should also output the message currently stored in
> `busy-message'.
> This way, loading a file could set this var to "Loading <foo>..." and if
> the loading takes a while (and only in this case), you'd get the
> relevant message. This would happen to work for autoloading as well as
> for `require' and any other way to load a file. And it could be used
> in other situations (e.g. "Building completion table...").
That would be good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-10 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 12:30 Silent autoloading Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-08 21:34 ` Glenn Morris
2008-11-08 22:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 1:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-10 8:37 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-11-10 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 20:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-11 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-16 14:34 ` Michael Albinus
2008-11-16 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 11:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-09 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-17 5:01 ` Michael Albinus
2008-11-17 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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