On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:09:03 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote: > Hehe. Very useful indeed. There is one more thing: Would it be possible to provide user > feedback while this is running (synchronously, I guess)? Like having > some message in the minibuffer saying "Calling all stations...." and > "Polling finished, please move along..." ? Anything is possible, of course. It just always seems to mean someone learning a bit more elisp. ;-) In the meantime, I've found it handy to put my mouse pointer over the emacs window when I run this command. Then I get a nice "busy" mouse cursor during this operation instead of the standard text-edit bar. -Carl