wish: notmuch-emacs: notmuch-poll-and-refresh-this-buffer should use progress-reporter

[David Bremner]

Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf at condition-alpha.com> writes:

> Dear notmuch developers,
>
> when notmuch-poll-and-refresh-this-buffer is invoked (e.g. by hitting
> "G"), the triggered operations may take some time (e.g. due to accessing
> multiple IMAP accounts with mbsync). During this time, the Emacs UI is
> essentially frozen.
>
> To give the user a visual clue that something is happening in the
> background, and Emacs has not crashed, it would be great if a progress
> indicator could be shown. See e.g. the Elisp manual `(info "(elisp)
> Progress")', or [1].

I don't use this functionality, but Pierre mentioned making the fetch
asynchronous, and provided a patch to try out in

      id:875zehszdp.fsf at ambrevar.xyz

Maybe working on that would be a better use of effort?

d