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#8890
23.3; message writing slows emacs
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Reported by: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:46:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 23.3
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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on Sun Sep 11 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> It would be good, IMO, to delay updating the visible message in the
>> minibuffer line long enough to be sure that the message just written
>> isn't about to be overwritten so fast that the user couldn't read it
>> anyway.
>
> Over-enthusiastic messaging isn't pretty, but slowing down Emacs just to
> display normal "informative" messages would be really bad, in my
> opinion.
I'm sorry; you've misunderstood me. I agree with you! I don't mean to
pause emacs; I mean to buffer the message until it has been stable for
some amount of time. Hmm, I don't know whether emacs has the
architecture for that sort of asynchrony... but it should :-)
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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