From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3751: 23.0.95; C-h H does not display hourglass cursor Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:14:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5xnttrs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ws6o21x4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316251108 10314 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2011 09:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3751@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 17 11:18:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r2V-0006uz-V6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:18:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r2V-0004k7-Di for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:18:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r2P-0004jp-5m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r2L-000618-Az for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r2L-000614-5c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r6z-0002Bl-M7; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:23:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:23:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 3751 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3751-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B3751.13162513638389 (code B ref 3751); Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3751) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Sep 2011 09:22:43 +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 1R4r6g-0002BG-Vr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4r6e-0002B5-CX for 3751@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LRN00H00TRE7200@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 3751@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:16:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.239.98]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LRN00G3LTS1Z270@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:16:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:23:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:51293 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: 3751@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:27:39 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii 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. > > Adding a "please wait..." message is easy enough, but is there any way > to determine when the wait is over? Emacs hangs in redisplay, probably? > > And just leaving the "please wait..." after the wait is over wouldn't be > nice, either. Would it work to let-bind view-mode-hook to some function that will just clear the echo area, around the call to view-file?