From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting a hourglass cursor
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:19:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50909150519p62936973y98c176bbde344fde@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAF8561.7050009@gnu.org>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> The case in point is "C-h H", which (at least on Windows) takes an
>> annoyingly long time.
>>
>
> On Windows, we don't support asynchronous timers, so the hourglass will only
> display if we spend a long time executing lisp code. C-h H is spending time
> doing redisplay (specifically finding fonts to display the various scripts),
> so the hourglass does not display.
Are there any difficulties with supporting async timers on w32?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 3:22 Getting a hourglass cursor Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-15 12:15 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-15 12:19 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-09-15 12:32 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-15 16:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-16 0:46 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-16 1:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-15 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-15 19:19 ` Jan Djärv
2009-09-15 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-15 22:49 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-15 23:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-16 3:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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