From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Subject: Re: wish: notmuch-emacs: notmuch-poll-and-refresh-this-buffer should use progress-reporter
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 19:53:24 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9kf1xjv.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cc0351466ff5dfe56452f49ce9719f8@condition-alpha.com>
Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com> writes:
> Dear notmuch developers,
>
> when notmuch-poll-and-refresh-this-buffer is invoked (e.g. by hitting
> "G"), the triggered operations may take some time (e.g. due to accessing
> multiple IMAP accounts with mbsync). During this time, the Emacs UI is
> essentially frozen.
>
> To give the user a visual clue that something is happening in the
> background, and Emacs has not crashed, it would be great if a progress
> indicator could be shown. See e.g. the Elisp manual `(info "(elisp)
> Progress")', or [1].
I don't use this functionality, but Pierre mentioned making the fetch
asynchronous, and provided a patch to try out in
id:875zehszdp.fsf@ambrevar.xyz
Maybe working on that would be a better use of effort?
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-28 16:01 wish: notmuch-emacs: notmuch-poll-and-refresh-this-buffer should use progress-reporter Alexander Adolf
2020-05-28 22:53 ` David Bremner [this message]
2020-05-29 12:57 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-05-29 16:31 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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