From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:09:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m338yms47g.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwqw1jrsb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:30:16 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> (with-timeout-forms
>> (progn
>> (bla)
>> (bla))
>> (1.5 (message "This is sure taking a lot of time..."))
>> (10 (message "This is sure taking forever!")))
>
> Maybe an alternative would be a `current-state-message' global variable,
> which is then displayed once per second that Emacs is busy.
Sure, that would also handle the "tell the user what's going on" use
case, and we could have a convenience macro `with-current-state-message'
that would simply be an `unwind-protect' to clear out the state message.
But `with-timeout-form' would be kinda generally useful, I think. :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-31 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-25 13:20 Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 13:52 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-25 19:57 ` Karl Fogel
2012-12-26 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-27 4:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27 10:49 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-27 14:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27 9:40 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-12-27 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-29 6:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-31 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-01-03 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-03 23:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-04 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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