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

From: VanL <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 22:26:22 +1000

> On 22 Jun 2019, at 21:50, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Emacs doesn't display any hourglasses, but I see that you're on an Apple
> OS, so that probably does when a program hangs/works a long time?

Native apps on Apple OS display a spinning beachball when they lose control of themselves.

The 'Force Quit' panel is how to know the app is unrecoverable and needs to be killed or force quited or relaunched.

I just experienced a lengthy delay and the lower half article display was missing in blank completely.

> But it doesn't with Emacs?  What happens if you eval
> 
> (dotimes (i 100000000))
> 
> ?

;; C-u C-x C-e in scratch buffer 
(dotimes (i 100000000))nil

No hourglass appears. The summary article panel, at upper half, follows the mouse pointer with highlight between square brackets before nil appears, it seems.