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: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87obrzo8qy.fsf@gmx.de> <8762e75k1o.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331736223 15445 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2012 14:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 14 15:43:42 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 1S7pQT-0003j0-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pQT-0007kf-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pQL-0007iK-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pQC-0001N5-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:50790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pQC-0001Mz-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58] helo=stories.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S7pPy-0006dr-UN; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:10 +0100 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEX9+eHKz9b//+9jal/2 7dv+/eb///D///MyNS2ho53//+j+//PsU5X4AAACWklEQVQ4jW2UsWvbQBTGb4iXbkKGWnTqQWXQ Fl8IEl0kUCjePNgteNQgQafYpHe7ReFMJyPa+vASBBmqLWRI89/1vXc6xwn9jOWTfv7e3Xund2yY M9SgC6OoW1jBfQ4fGHWou8UMBzyCC7CUwR3nPOKklocl/HQzlg7geRjySipVKfxWShYRgpaX6lRl BeCWpUs+Vq/Vg0qtM4+Ug7IDAgi1DJVae88KJkpJcowf1fUroGwo9QI0F0pWBMJT4O+aBNaMoAPw LTsC04hPSn69ZYxAMHSBAPxWkjtHkGcOBAiKHlx7DhgCuKqrFhK/yRxITBC/pVA9OMutITG++NI7 KgQsI4sRxoflKnKUFCpHS5AIEVxYkKJjlaXZLw3ZJWLrf1d2uT2Y/qy90RaARoA7SHMEaRYknqch 1P7oUDjH52ykvQCBv1H9ciHBm3ye7fX5VMd17U8cgFBPZrrbax1rULNxocDxIHZmrxODIN7YHSTH Cmq010LoWmh96lhBbg2AWABEUByBMb4GVwLbcYnvT5/gPYCRNrvROdTl3f/AFup4cADKfm9wcvhu YXBwRRxjHo2IcfLkBODrg46jDrjcO8YIBC+AXAMYdP0cEE3EO2PE5HHN+dyCJwSi12bOZtiWXWsn rx24VLIsMBT0xwOUyD0XH6Gpis6Cv1DV2ll+AKDJqexWiXXIAkEbVs/NJ20LctiPwZKXZeieF3SF IwDboIWGPzYuNLmSHxYIlnQwhCUFLBEVf7yrGQFU1JYF7/V++IZSZHTkwB/ouMGDZrk4Y9jzdDLR IE+ZVf4P7+yWyAKfbGIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Now-Playing: Pink Floyd's _Wish You Were Here_ In-Reply-To: <8762e75k1o.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:33:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1S7pPy-0006dr-UN MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1332340991.11004@9lIvixefxXYMmDeVQvLRvw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:149046 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Maybe some spinner plus number of active/aborted/skipped processes, > e.g., [\ (2/1/0)]? 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... >> Spinning in the buffer itself may be unnecessarily distracting. > > And it would be likely to break something. Remember when you introduced > the seconds-counting Date header in gnus article mode and sometimes > copying a region would copy from Date header to mark instead of from > mark to point? Yes, that was a pain. But I think I got all the bugs worked out after a few months. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/