From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Loading"
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:55:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipi76xmc.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mx7jp7k1.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:10 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I think a simple spinner (that doesn't move stuff around in the mode
> line) is to be preferred. We just want to communicate to the user that
> "we're waiting for something", not to flash lots of details at the
> user. If we want the latter, we can use the echo area...
I would prefer the help area of the spinning char. As usual in the modeline.
As said already, the minibuffer/echo area shall be usable during the
async operation. At least in my use case :-)
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 21:38 "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 2:02 ` "Loading" Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 2:18 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 9:02 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 13:27 ` "Loading" Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 13:38 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 14:28 ` "Loading" Stefan Monnier
2012-03-14 14:50 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 14:07 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 14:33 ` "Loading" Tassilo Horn
2012-03-14 14:43 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-14 14:55 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2012-03-15 1:40 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 8:28 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 9:33 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 10:26 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 11:22 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 11:55 ` "Loading" Tassilo Horn
2012-03-15 12:05 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-15 15:29 ` "Loading" Dave Abrahams
2012-03-15 15:51 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-15 16:12 ` "Loading" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-19 13:32 ` "Loading" Ted Zlatanov
2012-03-15 11:59 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
2012-03-14 17:07 ` "Loading" Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-14 18:29 ` "Loading" Michael Albinus
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