visualization during make process

[Fred T. Hamster]

instead of spewing a long train of stuff,
how about some terminal magic to show good infos:....

have a bottom line of status that shows the current file being operated on,
current elapsed time in process, etc.

then there should be a scrolling window above that with N lines (say 4)
of the active stuff.

could present different ways, with more or less (or none) of the rolling status.

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doesn't have to be just for makes; could be a nice status feature for lots of things
that take a while to run.