Show that Emacs is busy in all frames?

When Emacs is busy (e.g., checking mail) is there a way to put something on
all the frames showing that it's busy?

My Gnus checks for new mail every 15 minutes.  When I'm at home and connect
to an Emacs instance that was started at work it sometimes looks like Emacs
is hung.  But it's really in the middle of checking mail.  Every once in a
while Emacs really *is* hung.  I don't know how to tell the difference.

This may be a plain Emacs question but I only run into it while running
multi-tty.

emacsclient +10 file doesn't work

Hi,

Can you reproduce that emacsclient +5 filename doesn't work? emacs
+5 filename works fine, but not emacsclient. I get a complaint it
cannot open file +5.

# Han

Re: Show that Emacs is busy in all frames?

Mark Plaksin <happy <at> mcplaksin.org> writes:
> When Emacs is busy (e.g., checking mail) is there a way to put something on
> all the frames showing that it's busy?

I don't think there is such a thing, except maybe the 'busy' mouse
pointer on graphical frames.

I am currently working on something related: to have something
displayed on 'locked' displays while Emacs is busy processing a
command on another display.  Ideally something would appear in the
echo area of locked displays, but Emacs has only one echo area that is
shared by all displays.  So there are some technical problems.

> My Gnus checks for new mail every 15 minutes.  When I'm at home and connect
> to an Emacs instance that was started at work it sometimes looks like Emacs
> is hung.  But it's really in the middle of checking mail.  Every once in a
> while Emacs really *is* hung.  I don't know how to tell the difference.

Are the real hungs caused by single-kboard mode (a pending recursive
edit on another display) or some other reason?  If the former, a

	emacsclient -e '(top-level)'

will probably break out of them; if the latter, then there may be an
unknown bug lurking somewhere waiting to be fixed.

> This may be a plain Emacs question but I only run into it while running
> multi-tty.

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Re: emacsclient +10 file doesn't work

Han Boetes <han <at> mijncomputer.nl> writes:
> Can you reproduce that emacsclient +5 filename doesn't work? emacs
> +5 filename works fine, but not emacsclient. I get a complaint it
> cannot open file +5.

I can reproduce the problem, although I don't even get an error
message.  I will look into it soon.

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