From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Flipping url-show-status default Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87fwwpkchk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285956833 23336 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 18:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:13:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 20:13:52 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1k7C-0007j7-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1k7B-0003Y0-Vz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46600 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1k74-0003X7-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1k6q-00018y-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.101]:37316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1k6q-00018r-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:13:28 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014154.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o91IDRLc016609 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B517CC018; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:13:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:20:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:131176 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The url library is very chatty. I think most users would get a more > pleasant experience if url-show-status defaulted to nil. I mean, our > other network libraries don't issue tons of messages every time you > transfer data, so I don't really see why url fetching should be > different. I don't think setting url-show-status to nil is the right thing; it's pretty important to show something, particularly for synchronous fetching, so that the user knows the connection isn't hung. But we can probably comment out some of the less important messages in url-http.el.