Re: Silent autoloading

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> 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...").

> I was offline the last three weeks, so I'm still synchronizing. Has
> something been done this way, or shall I add a message when loading Tramp?

Nothing has been done in this way yet.  Could you add a message for now?


        Stefan