Re: Fetching all messages into the Agent

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

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

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> It would still be useful to have some progress reporting during agent
>> download, especially for large groups.
>
> Yes.  But flashing a gazillion messages at people isn't nice, either.
>
> During the Emacs 24.2 cycle I hope to implement `maybe-message' (or
> something) that will allow us a convenient way to message stuff if
> things take too long.
>
> (maybe-message 1.0 "Fetching group foo...")
>
> If Emacs hasn't returned to the idle loop before one second has passed,
> then the message is displayed.  That way we'll only show a message if it
> turns out that the function took a long while to complete.

That would be great.

I agree that flashing tons of messages is not a good thing but, at the
moment, I am working with a fragile connection and I cannot be sure that
the delay (seconds to minutes sometimes for downloading to the agent) is
due to gnus working away or Emacs having problems with the
connection.  Getting a periodic indication from gnus that something is
actually happening would be quite helpful.

thanks,
eric

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.1.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.6