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Re: messages override minibuffer input
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: messages override minibuffer input |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:44:28 -0400 |
Really? `require' happens during the loading of some other package, so
its delay is absorbed in the overall pause. But autoloading an
arbitrarily complicated package (hi Alan! :) during a stream of user input
can look like a hang.
Nowadays it usually does not take very long. For instance, visiting a
C file for the first time loads several Lisp files, and it takes less
than a second. I don't think this needs to display messages.
Once upon a time, when GC could take a few seconds, GC displayed
messages too. But when computers got faster, and GC took less time,
eventually the messages were more trouble than they were worth.
So I turned them off.
I don't want to implement anything complex in this area.
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, (continued)
- RE: messages override minibuffer input, Drew Adams, 2007/09/24
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/25
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, Davis Herring, 2007/09/17
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/17
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/24
- Re: messages override minibuffer input, Davis Herring, 2007/09/24
- RE: messages override minibuffer input, Drew Adams, 2007/09/24
- Re: messages override minibuffer input,
Richard Stallman <=
Re: messages override minibuffer input, Davis Herring, 2007/09/10
Re: messages override minibuffer input, Johannes Weiner, 2007/09/12
Re: messages override minibuffer input, Davis Herring, 2007/09/12