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Re: blinking the modeline
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: blinking the modeline |
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Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:18:23 GMT |
In article <c6d3cf9e.0304230607.25d0fa7d@posting.google.com>,
Rob Meyer <roblist@bigdis.com> wrote:
>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....
Why don't you just turn on the time display on the mode line, with
(display-time)? It will update every minute.
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