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

> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> 
> >   Nope, all in lisp.  Emacs/W3 still does do it, I just didn't remember the 
> > function name correctly.
> > 
> > (defun url-lazy-message (&rest args)
> >   "Just like `message', but is a no-op if called more than once a second.
> 
> No, not like that -- the other way around.  The postponed message I
> envision will only be shown if not preempted a quarter second after it
> was suggested.
> 
> (postponed-message "This takes a long time"
>   (do-something))
> 
> will be shown if `(do-something)' takes a long while.
> 
> The length of time between messages isn't the concern, although it has 
> an effect on that as well.

  You could do this with itimers, but that's kind of yucky. :)

-Bill P.