bug#7679: wishlist: add new library map-progress.el - mapping macros that report progress (Jonas Bernoulli)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> I would be nice if the progress indicator library map-progress.el by Jonas
> Bernoulli. were included in Emacs

These functions work like this, apparently:

---
(mapcar-with-progress-reporter "hello" (lambda (a) (sleep-for 1)) '(1 2 3))

hello
hello 33%
hello 66%
hello 99%
---

Seems handy, but I'm not sure how useful these really would be in
practise.  Opinions?

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