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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> When one does things that usually takes a long time, you message to
> tell the user that Emacs is doing whatever it's doing.
> 
> Filling paragraphs...
> Filling paragraphs...done
> 
> However, in many cases the action doesn't take all that long, so you
> just get a flutter of these messages, which is annoying.
> 
> Wouldn't it be neat if you could say
> 
> (maybe-message "Filling paragraphs..."
>   (do-that-thing)
>   ...)
> 
> and then that message would only be displayed if `do-that-thing' took
> more than ¼ second.
> 
> Does this sound useful? 

  Emacs/W3 used to do this, it was pretty nice, and pretty easy to
implement.

-Bill P.