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showing process progress while waiting
From: |
Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
showing process progress while waiting |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:03:11 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (windows-nt) |
I'm trying to display progress info to the user while they are forced to
wait.
There is a background process that is sending symbol info to Emacs; in
this case several thousand symbols, so it takes a while.
If the user invokes a function that requires the completion table using
those symbols, it waits until all symbols are sent, then returns the
table.
The wait is done in a loop like this:
(with-current-buffer (process-buffer process)
(when (eq command-type 'symbols)
;; show progress in mode line
(setq gpr-query--symbols-progress "")
(add-to-list 'mode-line-misc-info '("" gpr-query--symbols-progress " "))
(force-mode-line-update))
(while (and (process-live-p process)
(not done))
(message (concat "running gpr_query ..." (make-string wait-count ?.)))
;; process output is inserted before point, so move back over it to
search it
(goto-char search-start)
(if (re-search-forward gpr-query-prompt (point-max) 1)
(setq done t)
;; else wait for more input
(unless (accept-process-output process 1.0)
;; accept-process returns non-nil when we got output, so we
;; did not wait for timeout.
(setq wait-count (1+ wait-count))
(when (eq command-type 'symbols)
;; update progress
(force-mode-line-update)
(redisplay))
))
))
There is a process filter on the background process that updates
gpr-query--symbols-progress to be "symbols 10%", then "symbols 20%" etc.
However, when I invoke this, the mode line is not updated until I
interrupt it with C-g.
What am I missing?
--
-- Stephe
- showing process progress while waiting,
Stephen Leake <=