Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:11:01 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> It might be useful to give a subtle indication that the asynchronous
> >> command finished, maybe by displaying a message in the echo
> >> area.
> >
> > Not in the echo area, on the mode line.  The echo area is too
> > ephemeral.
> 
> Some years ago, I've proposed an extension to the progress reporter for
> the modeline,
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-02/msg00764.html>.
> Maybe we shall reanimate the proposal?

Maybe so, but that's largely unrelated: the issue at hand here is how
to indicate the progress/completion of an async file visiting command,
with or without an infrastructure that makes such reporting easier or
nicer.  I think.