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27.1; if diff commands finds no differences then do not pop up a window

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 49774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49774: 27.1; if diff commands finds no differences then do not pop up a window
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:44:49 +0300

On 30.07.2021 14:58, ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army 
knife of text editors wrote:
> Okay, then how about adding a configurable delay before popping up the diff window?
> E.g. if no results arrive within, say, 1 second then a timer pops up the
> window, so the user knows the diff is in progress, but slow.

I was going to suggest a user option that switches to the synchronous 
mode of operation, but the above sounds probably even better.

As long as there is someone willing to implement this.

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