From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Getting a hourglass cursor Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:22:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83my4wyjrf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252984974 30256 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2009 03:22:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:22:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 05:22:47 2009 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 1MnOcw-0005pr-1Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:22:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnOcv-0000Z1-8X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnOcq-0000Yw-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnOco-0000Yj-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33727 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnOco-0000Yg-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:7213) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnOcn-0002cK-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnOcn-00075B-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KPZ00F00T1RBY00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:22:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.38.189]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KPZ00IU0TDDLH40@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:22:25 +0300 (IDT) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:115331 Archived-At: What is the paradigm for getting a hourglass cursor for a prolonged operation? I thought Emacs does that automagically, but I don't see how that could happen, looking at the code. It sounds like a command that expects to be long should do that by hand, is that right? Or am I missing something? The case in point is "C-h H", which (at least on Windows) takes an annoyingly long time.