From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Loading" Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:51:14 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87obrzo8qy.fsf@gmx.de> <8762e75k1o.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ipi76xmc.fsf@gmx.de> <87ipi6e0a1.fsf@gmx.de> <87zkbicg8r.fsf@gmx.de> <87obry5ba8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331826703 3310 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2012 15:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:51:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 15 16:51:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Cxn-0003VA-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:51:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Cxn-0002jA-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Cxi-0002hQ-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Cxc-0004y9-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Cxc-0004xv-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8CxZ-0003H7-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:51:25 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:51:25 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:51:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAKlBMVEW1KcOmNbe8E6u1DZNe wLY3AhZfhYKIH5SpF6SxLcaICGKqEZ1qX2mGQ3eCXQmdAAACU0lEQVQ4jW2Tv2obQRDGL4KAcRqf GqFOBPIIgbQSkxUBpcsocOx1q3UIVyQBsW4CsauUicEEPcC6OJQmz6Bdg9nrLBWH/C6ZWcnWSck0 B/Pjmz/f7CVJjKPOq+7l80b0NvlEurGCVpPE9LO1lF7D4BC0EKsgQbw5BMeIdZUrEP8BFu0C4PIf kNnfjkD7ADy1ebksbj3ok31gCVhdk0QcAMwy65wEaKyyARQSCpIcKjgUA1K0diDm0etxBL29PTLk 1aMpDUWs5ak19A9MJAkuGMDwS7MUrUi9IwDxKWmChBVC1CqoPoNeaweod201OXaypzhHDJXFopBq dMH5h9MmLzArUXqqJd5iQ7G1xUMI1cJTh1by2IRipUQI+Uo2FEcbV1QRZOEWf2isLTiOYEyV5tS/ zYLZZsOM7EKpg9ABxICHmv2YUVzlLsO1jscSasDDzmJMc0eC4NgZodo7gAzmbpmzlyKOFPNX2T0B dGu8I6AvGHQp/4veKAOsanrCWp9twc8pmRt7VLnjg33gYbuzNOU72QgwX1P7/rcn50k3TdMpyv6S rarKbE5g+D1NE8qnzr6D1wxCWQSt+uYsgk6HB1pmvHhFveGjoSBgDIH8JQOKoGD0CL7WmC8zGxQB H6C/BR2DNcp7Oq4SSnjthxF87hgzJWcjAJh4vDEbBYPcUi26E0BRqKF5VJhb+kWuRYCRgmJ8ulMY Q3vbOxBcTLxvgimWK1ST+FBNoxSBeVjp+IKHDyB+pnO6U1GSUdtKJokCg9cT8qoKfrN2A2Dh0Omg /ekW/AUSunO9T/1X3gAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: New Order's _Technique_: "Dream attack" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j0VXIoEuzwln0pi9E5bIbfIOt6g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149085 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams writes: > In this case, maybe. In the general case, there are processes with > no visible buffer or any obvious association. There may be use cases for a global notification thing, but it's not immediately clear what this would be. If the mode line spins for a particular buffer, then it's clear that something (hopefully obvious) is going to happen in the buffer in question. If we have a global spinner, all that would convey to the user is that Emacs is doing something... somewhere... for some reason... Which might be neat, but not really useful. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/