Jay Borkenhagen writes: > I changed display-hourglass to nil, and I now I do see the "No new > mail ..." message disappear from the minibuffer after 4 seconds. If > that is what I have to do to get the desired behavior I'm OK with > that, but I think this all may not be working the way Uday had > intended so I decided to mention it here.
Yes, I remember the issues now. While sit-for is doing its sitting, the hourglass will keep showing that Emacs is busy. This was confusing to users because they tend to wait for the hourglass to go off before doing their next operation. So, yes, if you want the 4 second disappearance, you need to turn off the hourglass. Cheers, Uday
