Re: Aborting the progress gauge

Friday, 17 March 2000

        Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes:

...
 At 09:15 AM 3/17/00 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
 >What I mean is: when you issue (message "foo"), the message sticks
 >around only until you press a key, or do anything that might require
 >the echo area space.  The same should happen with the progress gauge.
 >
 >I haven't looked at the code that places the gauge in the echo area,
 >so I'm not sure how to implement it, yet.

 I'll use pre-idle-hook maybe. I though sit-for should quit if there
 was input. 
sit-for does quit if there was input, but user is not aware of that.
What he perceives is a gratuitous delay.

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