Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:53:24 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:56:56 -0500
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> Using the background of the echo area as a progress bar would be nice,
>> but that may need some redisplay engine changes.

EZ> You mean, like ebrowse.el does?

I tried it:

(dotimes (i 100)
  (sleep-for 1)
  (ebrowse-show-progress (format "%d" i)))

It seems pretty good to me.  It still interferes with regular mesages,
though.  So maybe it should be (optionally) used by
make-progress-reporter but it's not as good as a user-specified location
in the modeline.

Ted