Re: blinking the modeline

[Kai Großjohann]

roblist@bigdis.com (Rob Meyer) writes:

> What I'm trying to do is flash the mode line every 180 seconds or so
> while Emacs is idle. The firewalls at work close the tcp conduit if
> there is no activity for some ridiculously low timeout (5 minutes or
> so). I could of course suspend Emacs and do my usual trick, "iostat
> 180", but I'd rather do it in emacs. I've figured out that
> run-with-idle-timer won't really do what I want since it will only run
> once and I'll have to figure out something more complex there. I
> thought that would be the hard party, but....

How about M-x display-time RET?  That updates the display every
minute, and gives you useful information, to boot!
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