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Re: Getting a hourglass cursor


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Getting a hourglass cursor
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:15:29 +0800
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
The case in point is "C-h H", which (at least on Windows) takes an
annoyingly long time.

On Windows, we don't support asynchronous timers, so the hourglass will only display if we spend a long time executing lisp code. C-h H is spending time doing redisplay (specifically finding fonts to display the various scripts), so the hourglass does not display.





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