When programming in emacs lisp, there is an easy way to show progress feedback to the user when a task will take some time. Here's a block of code from the elisp manual showing how to do it.
(let ((progress-reporter
(make-progress-reporter "Collecting mana for Emacs..."
0 500)))
(dotimes (k 500)
(sit-for 0.01)
(progress-reporter-update progress-reporter k))
(progress-reporter-done progress-reporter))
I've incorporated this into my duplicate files code, linked below...
2 comments:
BTW, there is a nice macro for most common use cases:
(dotimes-with-progress-reporter (k 500) "Collecting mana for Emacs..."
(sleep-for 0.01))
Yeah that's neater thanks
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