From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-*-root finctions Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:06:10 -0800 Message-ID: <200802212006.m1LK6AUN024939@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <87skzn3mq9.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87mypvxzd2.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <200802201850.m1KIofIk000198@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87tzk2xr2q.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <200802211835.m1LIZcZ5005055@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203624500 31161 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 20:08:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thien-Thi Nguyen , Stefan Monnier To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 21 21:08:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSHiD-0007O7-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:08:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSHhi-0003dy-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:07:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSHhc-0003Xh-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:07:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSHhY-0003O5-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSHhY-0003Nl-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:07:28 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSHhX-0007Be-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:07:27 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1204229171.20346@x/pYHu+RVBypjLEo37EK+g Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m1LK6AUN024939; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:06:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:31 -0700") Original-Lines: 25 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89857 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > >> To support asynchronous behavior well, we wish to keep the user informed, > >> i.e, updating some visible status at the asynchronous boundaries (twice). > > Dan> Huh? Please explain this. > > He is saying that when you start an async command, you want to give > the user some indication is has started; and then when the command > finishes, Emacs should give an indication that it has finished. > > That seems fairly uncontroversial to me. Agreed. That's why I said that the patch needs to be split up.... Using the mode-line (like all the vc-commands do now) seems like a good idea. > However, I think the most likely cause of "flickering" would be the > pcvs-like in-buffer notification, which got nixed. Printing the exact command run for doing was considered unnecessary, but maybe printing some other status message could be helpful...