From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 3751@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3751: 23.0.95; C-h H does not display hourglass cursor
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:21:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0eak7ry.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736f6hl58.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:01:23 +0100)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Cc: 3751@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:01:23 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > On MS Windows, "C-h H" takes as much as 10 seconds (on a 3GHz
> > machine), but no hourglass cursor is displayed during that time,
> > making it look like nothing is going on.
> >
> > If displaying an hourglass cursor during the time Emacs prepares to
> > display etc/HELLO is difficult, at the very least please display some
> > informative message that ends with "please wait..." in the echo area.
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> Here is another bug of yours that was reported 10 years ago. Is this
> still an issue? It seems to me that it would be easy to add a message
> using progress-reporter.
It is still an issue, and the reason is the details of how the
hourglass cursor display is implemented on MS-Windows.
I'd like this bug report to be left open, because it is an example of
quite a few other situations where a prolonged operation doesn't cause
the hourglass cursor to be displayed. I still hope that someone will
add or modify the code to produce the expected effect in those cases.
If someone wants to work on this, I can provide more details.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-04 10:11 bug#3751: 23.0.95; C-h H does not display hourglass cursor Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-17 6:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-17 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-18 8:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-02 6:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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