ghh@clarity.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman) (07/25/88)
In gnu emacs 19.50.3 is there a way to have new mail
indicated in the mode line without having the time and load
showing up?
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HARMAN@PUCC.BITNETjr@bbn.com (John Robinson) (07/26/88)
In article <GHH.88Jul25140445@clarity.princeton.edu>, ghh@clarity (Gilbert Harman) writes: >In gnu emacs 19.50.3 is there a way to have new mail >indicated in the mode line without having the time and load >showing up? [I assume you mean 18.50.3, or else I just missed a time warp] The stuff that goes into the mode line is simply the output of the program loadst, which is normally run from the emacs/etc/ directory. If you put a program named loadst on your search path, emacs will execute it first. I did this for a while with a shell script that looked for new news and added [News] to the modeline when appropriate. To get only [Mail] have the shellscript check ~/mailbox and act accordingly; it just does this every 60 seconds and emacs does the rest. If you want it in C, pick up and hack the source from emacs/etc/. --
Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (07/26/88)
In article <27412@bbn.COM>, jr@bbn (John Robinson) writes: > In article <GHH.88Jul25140445@clarity.princeton.edu>, ghh@clarity (Gilbert Harman) writes: > >In gnu emacs 19.50.3 is there a way to have new mail > >indicated in the mode line without having the time and load > >showing up? > The stuff that goes into the mode line is simply the output of the > program loadst, which is normally run from the emacs/etc/ directory. > If you put a program named loadst on your search path, emacs will > execute it first. I did this for a while with a shell script that > looked for new news and added [News] to the modeline when appropriate. Although this will work, there is another way to do this purely inside Emacs-Lisp. The function display-time-filter is used to filter the output of the loadst process before it is put into the mode-line (see lisp/time.el). display-time-filter sets the variable display-time-string to a string that will be displayed in the mode-line. You can rewrite display-time-filter to display the string as you want it. (You can also have other background processes (e.g., a new news checker) modify display-time-string to get other kinds of notification without rewriting loadst.) Both methods will work -- it's upto you which one you prefer. It would be nice if display-time-filter ran a hook at its end so that one could do stuff like this (customize the date and time display, add on other notifications such as [News], etc.) without having to rewrite either loadst or display-time-filter. -- Ashwin. ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs
montnaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) (07/27/88)
Here's a /bin/sh version of loadst I pieced together. It ignores the uflag,
but then, Emacs doesn't use it.
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#!/bin/sh
nflag=
uflag=
repetition=
while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
case $1 in
-n) nflag=$1 ;;
-u) uflag=$1 ;;
*) repetition=$1 ;;
esac
shift
done
while [ true ] ; do
if [ -r /usr/spool/mail/$USER ] ; then
echo $nflag "Mail"
else
echo $nflag "-"
fi
sleep $repetition
done
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Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com, montanaro@ge-crd.arpa)