Subject: bug#8118: 24.0.50; `eval-minibuffer' should show message "Evaluating..."

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:58:25 -0700

> > M-: (eval-minibuffer "Sexp: ")
> > Type: global-map RET
> >
> > As you can see from this example, it would be good if we showed some
> > feedback to let users know that Emacs is thinking. ;-)
> 
> No, I disagree.  That would be very annoying, in my opinion, so I'm
> closing this report.

Why would it be annoying?
It is standard Emacs UI practice to show such a progress message:

 Loading foo.el...

 Loading foo.el...done