From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Fetching all messages into the Agent
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:18:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw2xecjz.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wr31rfxm.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:33:57 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> During the Emacs 24.2 cycle I hope to implement `maybe-message' (or
LMI> something) that will allow us a convenient way to message stuff if
LMI> things take too long.
LMI> (maybe-message 1.0 "Fetching group foo...")
LMI> If Emacs hasn't returned to the idle loop before one second has passed,
LMI> then the message is displayed. That way we'll only show a message if it
LMI> turns out that the function took a long while to complete.
May I suggest a macro like (with-timeout-message TIMEOUT MESSAGE BODY)?
That's much more useful because you can time any body or function. We
already have `with-timeout' in timer.el but that actually aborts the
code. Still, maybe you can use its ideas.
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-23 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-13 14:01 Richard Riley
2012-06-14 7:57 ` Robert Pluim
2012-06-14 7:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-06-14 10:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-06-14 14:17 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-06-14 15:45 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-06-14 17:41 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-06-14 16:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-06-15 15:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-06-15 15:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-06-20 18:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-06-21 8:37 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-06-21 11:33 ` Richard Riley
2012-06-21 15:35 ` Vagn Johansen
2012-12-23 2:18 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-12-24 20:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-24 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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