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Re: Silent autoloading
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Silent autoloading |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:02:45 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> You're complaining about Emacs freezing for a little while without
>> giving any clue to the user about what's going on. That's indeed
>> a problem. But this rarely happens for autoloading, and in many cases
>> it happens independently from autoloading.
>>
>> Maybe the right solution is to link this to the hourglass-mouse-cursor:
>> have a global variable busy-message, and when the
>> hourglass timer expires, not only we should change the mouse-cursor to
>> an hourglass, but we should also output the message currently stored in
>> `busy-message'.
>> This way, loading a file could set this var to "Loading <foo>..." and if
>> the loading takes a while (and only in this case), you'd get the
>> relevant message. This would happen to work for autoloading as well as
>> for `require' and any other way to load a file. And it could be used
>> in other situations (e.g. "Building completion table...").
> I was offline the last three weeks, so I'm still synchronizing. Has
> something been done this way, or shall I add a message when loading Tramp?
Nothing has been done in this way yet. Could you add a message for now?
Stefan
- Re: Silent autoloading, (continued)
- Re: Silent autoloading, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/08
- Re: Silent autoloading, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/09
- Re: Silent autoloading, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/09
- Re: Silent autoloading, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/09
- Re: Silent autoloading, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/10
- Re: Silent autoloading, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/10
- Re: Silent autoloading, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/10
- Re: Silent autoloading, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/10
- Re: Silent autoloading, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/10
- Re: Silent autoloading, Michael Albinus, 2008/11/16
- Re: Silent autoloading,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Silent autoloading, Andreas Schwab, 2008/11/09
- Re: Silent autoloading, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/09
- Re: Silent autoloading, Michael Albinus, 2008/11/17
- Re: Silent autoloading, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/17