From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the best way to signal the completion of a task? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:26:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <24289865.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246508018 21150 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 04:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Steven Shiells Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 02 06:13:31 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 1MMDfu-000755-Fj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMDft-0005xi-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:13:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM1ho-0007hd-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM1hj-0007ZB-Bh for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47865 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MM1hi-0007Yp-Uq for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:35587) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MM1hi-0008BX-Ay for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so481624fxm.42 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:26:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dSXjG2uPh9j/T7xh4vi+83UxuciwNkjqsk0guZGMk/c=; b=d0TvW+LekFJjz1z5bQlm7joLBCZzlpVdZLKxEn23KnF5VqZO1xnce0iNH7fGBLbKCX BSOwi/sjTOrUF9e+66a7vK60DJvvQiUjqpXYHzaS5/TvXmiAxKCNHuSHjcbZkbAW1BTb Gx8AeBCaaj7/rI2kUKKeB/21JkkB05DMHcWb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=g/ZkpwM9iyjE1pP2gZsWWkAwew7HoXQLvyb26UhG0U1hnzMoiEbSJlLOFjeUqx55dX nhStWSLYnBSgdMLb+1X2l+4mVxfxslH363VcVbj1gNYKLB/uyEm/0FBDSlNgacAzmmUX S8GzTOTewyXjVYFSGpJt8DHw+hTsbCPynqsqo= Original-Received: by 10.239.134.132 with SMTP id 4mr785461hbz.131.1246461993419; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:26:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <24289865.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:12:40 -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:65715 Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:32 PM, 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. I think you will have to describe a bit more how the software interact with Emacs.