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-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:53:27 -0800 Message-ID: <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204484179 2822 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2008 18:56:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 02 19:56:45 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 1JVtMb-0005Gd-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVtM4-0004Fl-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVtLy-0004Dl-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVtLx-0004CZ-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVtLx-0004CH-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:56:05 -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 1JVtLq-0000xk-7l; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:55:58 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205088808.38923@kbMZA8WtABchqJy8sfeSdg 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 m22IrRvA000730; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 10:53:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:25:55 -0500") Original-Lines: 14 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:91087 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > What sort of VC commands are asynchronous, other than vc-diff which > shouldn't be a problem? All non-state changing VC commands should be asynchronous. Currently vc-diff, vc-annotate, vc-log and vc-status are. Not sure what you mean above about vc-diff... vc-diff is essential to be asynchronous, computing diffs can take several minutes (see what Tom Tromey said in another thread about GCC svn). Having an indication in the mode-line that the diff is still active is very good, especially if the user has selected a large number a files for diffing.