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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>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #83 received at 8890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
>>> If it's been less than (say) 50th of a second since the previous
>>> message, then don't message anything. However, set up a timer in a
>>> 100th of a second's time to display that message -- if nothing else has
>>> been displayed in the mean time.
>> That's much too tricky to implement. Making it reliable is going to
>> be painful.
> Is it getting a timer to work that's tricky?
Yes, getting the timer to work, canceling it when needed, etc... It's
fiddly. Especially when compared to the simplicity of
progress-reporter-update/progress-reporter-done.
> If we're not going to make `message' just behave, then a function pair
> like `message-maybe' (which wouldn't output anything that arrives too
> fast) and a `message-flush' (to say that we're finished with the dubious
> messaging) might do the trick.
They exist and are called progress-reporter-update and
progress-reporter-done respectively. They just need to be improved to
allow non-numerical non-nil updates.
Stefan
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