From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:48:12 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: image-dired: Doc fix to better explain thumbnail generation
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~182
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50f9436146;p=emacs.git

image-dired: Doc fix to better explain thumbnail generation

* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Image-Dired): Improve description by
explaining that the generation of thumbnails is asynchronous.
---

diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
index 540abc3f3b9..9cdd4b805e6 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
@@ -1507,10 +1507,10 @@ buffer containing image-dired, corresponding to the marked files.
   You can also enter Image-Dired directly by typing @kbd{M-x
 image-dired}.  This prompts for a directory; specify one that has
 image files.  This creates thumbnails for all the images in that
-directory, and displays them all in the thumbnail buffer.  This
-takes a long time if the directory contains many image files, and it
-asks for confirmation if the number of image files exceeds
-@code{image-dired-show-all-from-dir-max-files}.
+directory, and displays them all in the thumbnail buffer.  The
+thumbnails are generated in the background and are loaded as they
+become available.  This command asks for confirmation if the number of
+image files exceeds @code{image-dired-show-all-from-dir-max-files}.
 
   With point in the thumbnail buffer, you can type @key{RET}
 (@code{image-dired-display-thumbnail-original-image}) to display a