Re: wish: notmuch-emacs: notmuch-poll-and-refresh-this-buffer should use progress-reporter

[Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>]

Hello David,

Many thanks for your swift response. 

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com> writes:
> 
>> [...]
>> 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?
> [...]

I'm not subscribed to the list, so can't comment on the patch.

In any case - synchronous or asynchronous - a visual indication of the
process would seem desirable. At least to know that something is going
on, and when it's finished.

Just my two cents anyway.


Many thanks and cheers,

  --alexander