Subject: bug#36306: 26.2.90; gnus pause doesn't show hourglass icon

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:03:24 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 13:50:13 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> VanL <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > When gnus pauses an hourglass mouse pointer is
> > expected.
> >
> > This version doesn't change the mouse pointer to
> > hourglass icon. There is no visual feedback.
> >
> > I look at the 'Force Quit Applications' panel and
> > know to wait because no problem is indicated
> > there.
> >
> > This has happened two times. The first time I
> > waited long enough and 'Force Quit'.
> 
> Emacs doesn't display any hourglasses

Emacs displays a special "hourglass" mouse pointer when it does some
prolonged operation.  By default, we should display that mouse pointer
after 1 sec of doing something.  See start_hourglass in xdisp.c.

> What happens if you eval
> (dotimes (i 100000000))

Here (on MS-Windows) Emacs displays the hourglass mouse pointer.