Re: need progress message for customize-apropos (enhancement request)

[Richard Stallman]

    Try customize-apropos . RET

    This will obviously take a while, as it opens a custom buffer with all
    options.

    After the message "Creating customization items..." is finished, the rest of
    the wait is much longer than the period in which that message is displayed.
    However, no message is displayed during this period

Does this do the job?

*** cus-edit.el 11 Feb 2005 10:29:26 -0500      1.212
--- cus-edit.el 19 Feb 2005 12:01:50 -0500      
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*** 1474,1481 ****
--- 1474,1483 ----
    (unless (eq (preceding-char) ?\n)
      (widget-insert "\n"))
    (message "Creating customization items ...done")
+   (message "Resetting customization items...")
    (unless (eq custom-buffer-style 'tree)
      (mapc 'custom-magic-reset custom-options))
+   (message "Resetting customization items...done")
    (message "Creating customization setup...")
    (widget-setup)
    (buffer-enable-undo)

Per, why does the code work this way?
Can't the widgets be created in the proper state initially?