From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sean O'Rourke" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: remove dabbrev--scanning-message? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:40:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87bqe34isa.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185198100 5923 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2007 13:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 15:41:35 2007 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 1ICyAH-0001zJ-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICyAG-00022Y-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICyAD-00021b-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICyAA-00021A-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICyAA-000217-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound2.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.206]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICyA9-0007FJ-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.ucsd.edu (smtp.ucsd.edu [132.239.1.49]) by outbound2.ucsd.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6NDep5f012662 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:40:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=2007001; d=ucsd.edu; c=simple; q=dns; b=rkHni6w89M8NnSIZ2T6KKTEfpDuzbZW/fhJjIuHKaAv0fuPfXjf0KiIPmRhdnup9v oDPnD/3AaSsZDjVFO32ow== Original-Received: from mister-foo.local ([128.54.220.221]) by smtp.ucsd.edu (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l6NDenKf091818; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:40:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bqe34isa.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Mon\, 23 Jul 2007 10\:37\:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:75369 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > () "Sean O'Rourke" > () Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:16:36 -0700 > > so I don't see any benefit to having progress > messages. Patch attached. > > right, so what you want to do is to submit a patch > that preserves this for those that see the benefit > while not making you wait, annoyed. > > how about replacing the message calls w/ a progress reporter? I can do this, but progress reporting only makes sense when there's a noticeable delay. I'm genuinely curious: For those people on the list with older hardware and/or many open buffers, with the progress messages removed, does a failed dabbrev-expand take more than an instant? It didn't for me, with 80 or so buffers and average hardware. /s