Re: "Loading"

[Michael Albinus]

Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:

>> Anything goes, of course. But I fear we would break the minibuffer
>> (which is a special buffer, with special handling). And there is still
>> the echo area problem.
>
> I didn't realize that was a separate problem.  Could you explain further?

(info "(elisp)The Echo Area")

> Yeah... but of course I'm looking at three modelines in my frame right
> now.  The problem of having no central place to display global state is
> well known around here, though.  Maybe just use the modeline of the
> leftmost window immediately above the minibuffer?

We are speaking about asynchronous saving of a buffer. The
progress-reporter shall only touch the modeline which belongs to that
buffer.

Best regards, Michael.