From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Loading"
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:40:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vcm6hcam.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ipi76xmc.fsf@gmx.de
on Wed Mar 14 2012, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus-AT-gmx.de> wrote:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> I think a simple spinner (that doesn't move stuff around in the mode
>> line) is to be preferred. We just want to communicate to the user that
>> "we're waiting for something", not to flash lots of details at the
>> user. If we want the latter, we can use the echo area...
>
> I would prefer the help area of the spinning char. As usual in the modeline.
>
> As said already, the minibuffer/echo area shall be usable during the
> async operation. At least in my use case :-)
Is there any reason a few characters couldn't be used for this in the
left part of the minibuffer/echo area, without making that area
completely unusable?
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 21:38 "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 2:02 ` "Loading" Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 2:18 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 9:02 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 13:27 ` "Loading" Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 13:38 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 14:28 ` "Loading" Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 14:50 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 14:07 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 14:33 ` "Loading" Tassilo Horn
2012-03-14 14:43 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 14:55 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 1:40 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2012-03-15 8:28 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 9:33 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 10:26 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 11:22 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 11:55 ` "Loading" Tassilo Horn
2012-03-15 12:05 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 15:29 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 15:51 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-15 16:12 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-19 13:32 ` "Loading" Ted Zlatanov
2012-03-15 11:59 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 17:07 ` "Loading" Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-14 18:29 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
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