From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7906: keep the buffer still in rmail mode Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:29:13 -0500 Message-ID: <1rd3nks2xy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1b78a791dbf9761258aa938c4d34f092.squirrel@webmail.maik.li> <607hdsq0vu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4a6f89ed4967caa4e6d39a389788b293.squirrel@webmail.maik.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296017719 17679 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 04:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:55:19 +0000 (UTC) To: 7906@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 05:55:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhxPW-00066E-8g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32866 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhxPV-0005fD-N8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35439 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhxPN-0005e7-As for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:55:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhxPM-0006M3-9O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhxPM-0006Lx-7p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhwtO-0008IZ-3f; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:22:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7906 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7906-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7906.129601567431846 (code B ref 7906); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7906) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jan 2011 04:21:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phwsc-0008Hb-DY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhwsZ-0008HG-H1; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39896) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phx0L-0008Pw-Tq; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:29:13 -0500 X-Spook: Dateline bce enforcers UFO Fedayeen weapons of mass X-Ran: ?T\W1|#Tdw})GMiOei?2C:AeM|L{}lbp@k|/.f8T*1XJV?TbkSM),*<)0{F?_7n)IC?Q (hf@hongfeng.ch's message of "Wed\, 26 Jan 2011 03\:21\:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:22:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43648 Archived-At: retitle 7096 minor display issue when getting new mail in rmail? severity 7096 minor stop [replying to off-list message] hf@hongfeng.ch wrote: > My concern or wish are: when I enter the rmail mode, and type `g', > the main buffer should NOT change anything if no email comes, only > in the echo area, it prompts a string "No new email." If some emails > are fetched from the email box, then the main buffer is refreshed to > display the first new email, and in the echo area it prompts how many > emails have received, for example "2 emails received". > > The current situation is, whenever I typed `g', the entire buffer swing > within very short time (maybe less than 0.1 seconds), but visually it is > evidently for me, if such swing won't happen as I described, then it > would be very good! It sounds like rmail-get-new-mail might be swapping buffers unnecessarily, or in an unnecessarily visible fashion. I still don't see it. Maybe the effect would be more visible with a slow source of new mail, eg a remote pop server, if someone wants to look into it.