ProgressBar during bzr branch

[Matthieu Moy]

duchier at ps.uni-sb.de writes:

> This function returns False when run under Emacs and that's
> unfortunate because the Emacs shell is perfectly capable of handling
> the terminal hackery emitted by the TTYProgressBar.  Worse yet, the
> DotsProgressBar induces a significant slow down in all cases.

If you use M-x term RET, you'll get the progress bar in Emacs. (not if
you use M-x shell RET I guess)

> The very bad performance of the emacs subshell with font-lock-mode
> turned on is due (I believe) to a large extent to the fact that the
> dots are all printed on one very long line.

Probably it would be better to insert a newline every, say, 70
columns. 

-- 
Matthieu