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Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:58:29 -0800 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > What sort of VC commands are asynchronous, other than vc-diff which
> > shouldn't be a problem?
>
> All non-state changing VC commands should be asynchronous. Currently
> vc-diff, vc-annotate, vc-log and vc-status are.
>
> Not sure what you mean above about vc-diff...
>
> I see no need to inform people in the mode line that vc-diff is
> running, or that it has stopped.
>
> Likewise vc-log. vc-status must be
> something new; I don't know what it is. But any asynch vc command
> whose purpose is to display something need not put anything in the
> mode line. Better to work like vc-diff: make the output buffer
> appear, and the user will see when it is complete.
vc-diff was one of the reasons for adding the mode-line notification:
the user can't see that the output is complete. vc-diff operations can
take a long time. Using CVS with a busy server/slow network tends to
have very non-predictable behavior, one can't see when the diff
operations has finished. If the user actually wants to use the result
of vc-diff, for example to email it to someone else, then he can get
incomplete results. The mode-line notification is a very good way to
show that the VC command is still in progress.
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, (continued)
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Nick Roberts, 2008/03/01
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/01
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Juri Linkov, 2008/03/02
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/02
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Nick Roberts, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Juri Linkov, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/02
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/02
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/04
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/04
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/05
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/05
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/06
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Miles Bader, 2008/03/06
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/07
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Jan Djärv, 2008/03/07
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/07
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/07