Re: When is hourglass shown?

[Jan D.]

> > This does not always work, as in the case of M-x indent-region versus
> > C-M-\.  Both starts the hourglass timer, but the first stops it
> > directly afterwards.
>
> Actually, I think it did work very well: it shows you that the
> hourglass was armed, i.e. that Emacs _meant_ for it to appear if the
> operation took enough time.  If you want to know why it didn't
> actually happen, an additional breakpoint where the timer is disabled
> would have shown you the code which did that.

I know exactly where now :-).  Not sure what to do about though.  Also, 
starting and cancelling hourglass is done frequently, so running with 
those breakpoints enabled makes for a lot of continue in gdb.  Not 
impossible though.

        Jan D.