Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters

[Tom Tromey]

Tom> How about propertizing the the mode-line so that the background color
Tom> changes from left to right as the task progresses?

Michael> That would be an invasive patch: the modeline string is known only in
Michael> xdisp.c, and we would need to change it there.

I think you could save the old mode line and replace it with an :eval
form that calls format-mode-line and then propertizes it.

I agree with Ted that it might not always be great.  But I was only
proposing it as a option, not as the only way.

Tom