From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Silent autoloading Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226197372 28679 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2008 02:22:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:22:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 09 03:23:55 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kyzxy-00026E-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:23:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kyzwq-0008RC-Fy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kyzwl-0008R6-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kyzwj-0008Qu-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52809 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kyzwj-0008Qi-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:10831 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kyzwg-0008O7-V8; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:35 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhIFAI/YFUlMCqyo/2dsb2JhbACBdsYcg1iBEQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,568,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="29572577" Original-Received: from 76-10-172-168.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.172.168]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 08 Nov 2008 21:22:33 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2177D89DE; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:22:33 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:54:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105484 Archived-At: > Stefan, any insights? Having Emacs sit silently in the minibuffer for > prolonged periods of time, without saying anything, makes me think it's > stuck, so at the very least let's have an option to get the old > behavior back. I agree with the basic premise, but I'm wondering what's the relationship: what kind of machine are you using where loading a .elc file is not virtually instantaneous? What's the actual use case where you've seen this problem of having Emacs sit silently for a prolonged period of time? Stefan