From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When is hourglass shown? Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:33:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <42289C1F.7060709@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109965391 2773 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2005 19:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 20:43:11 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7IdT-0008Vx-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:38:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7In0-0005RB-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D7ImV-0005Lj-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D7ImS-0005Jf-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:48:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7ImS-0005JV-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D7IYD-0008DE-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3A1340014; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:33:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432B54AC008; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:33:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 150B94BB7E; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:33:20 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: <42289C1F.7060709@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:34:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.815, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.09, BAYES_00 -4.90) 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:34182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34182 >> Can someone please tell me when an hourglass is shown on X Emacs? Is it >> shown for an operation like ediff-buffers (that takes a long time on my pc)? >> Is it shown for indent-region? > Not for indent-region (it should be IMHO). Are you sure? I thought it was command-agnostic (i.e. it simply displays an hourglass if more than X seconds have passed since Emacs was last ready to process keyboard input). [ ... trying out (setq indent-line-function (lambda () (while t))) ... ] Duh! You're right. Hmm... how does this thing work? Stefan