bug#3751: 23.0.95; C-h H does not display hourglass cursor

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Adding a "please wait..." message is easy enough, but is there any way
>> to determine when the wait is over?  Emacs hangs in redisplay, probably?
>> 
>> And just leaving the "please wait..." after the wait is over wouldn't be
>> nice, either.
>
> Would it work to let-bind view-mode-hook to some function that will
> just clear the echo area, around the call to view-file?

Hm.  Would that work?  I though that (basically) Emacs just put the
HELLO file in a window, and then the redisplay engine starts churning
and churning while the OS is loading all the fonts.

To clear the "please wait..." message you'd have to have a hook that's
run after redisplay is "finished", if that is even a possible concept.

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