Re: [PATCH] Add 'G' keybinding to folder and search view that triggers external poll

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add 'G' keybinding to folder and search view that triggers external poll

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:04:51 -0700

To: Sebastian Spaeth, Carl Worth, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Dirk Hohndel


On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:09:03 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:
> On 2010-04-22, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > I appreciate how nicely you can say "I liked the idea and then
> > completely rewrote the crap elisp that you submitted" :-)
> 
> 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..." ?

Right now all you get is the busy cursor. The problem with the updates
is that notmuch/emacs calls just one script. I don't know how to display
(progress-) output from that script in the mininuffer...

/D

-- 
Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center

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