From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Shiells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the best way to signal the completion of a task? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24292118.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <24289865.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246508359 21776 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 04:19:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:19:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 02 06:19:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMDlO-0000Iw-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:19:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMDlN-0003DB-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM20M-0005eg-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM20I-0005eF-CH for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39329 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MM20I-0005eC-6F for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:40503) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MM20H-0003dV-Q6 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MM20F-0007Ne-Pc for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:45:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <24289865.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Nabble-From: ss215@hw.ac.uk X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:16:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65721 Archived-At: More info about the software -- The software takes a source file, performs some functions on the source file and in some cases highlights sections of the source file, and others times does nothing. The case we are worried about is when there is no highlighting to be carried out. Hope this helps, Steven Steven Shiells wrote: > > I am part of a group who are writing some software that will be > compatible with Emacs. Initially, the software is expected to be slow, > and the user may wish to go and do something else. Currently, there > are situations where there are no visible signs that the task has been > completed. It is in these circumstances that we are unsure of the best > way to notify the user that the task has been completed. We are > looking for something simple and that will not annoy the user if they > away doing other things. > > We have tried searching the forum for any similar posts, but had no > success. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Steven > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-signal-the-completion-of-a-task--tp24289865p24292118.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.