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Re: Alarm clock for emacs


From: Leon
Subject: Re: Alarm clock for emacs
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:57:48 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Does anyone know of an alarm clock that runs in emacs?
>
> There is now! :) See below:
>
> (defvar alarm-clock-timer nil
>   "Keep timer so that the user can cancel the alarm")
>
> (defun alarm-clock-message (text)
>   "The actual alarm action"
>   (message-box text))
>
> (defun alarm-clock ()
>   "Set an alarm.
> The time format is the same accepted by `run-at-time'.  For
> example \"11:30am\"."
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((time (read-string "Time: "))
>         (text (read-string "Alarm message: ")))
>     (setq alarm-clock-timer (run-at-time time nil 'alarm-clock-message 
> text))))
>
> (defun alarm-clock-cancel ()
>   "Cancel the alarm clock"
>   (interactive)
>   (cancel-timer alarm-clock-timer))
>
> It is very simple. It does not, for example, keep track of multiple
> alarms so that you can cancel them individually.
>
> /Mathias

Emacs hackers are cool. Thanks Mathias.

This is a nice example for me to learn elisp.

-- 
Leon





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