From: Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.news@xs4all.nl>
Cc: bug-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Battery mode cannot use iBook
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:47:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7eoyymo.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050626023526.99DEF23EF6D@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> (Sam Lauber's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2005 03:35:26 +0100")
"Sam Lauber" <sam124@operamail.com> writes:
> I have a iBook G4 w/ Mac OS X. I installed the Carbon Emacs from June '05.
> But the Battery mode does not know about the Mac OS X programs for
> battery status, so it dosen't know the battery status for the laptop when
> the system provides this information already.
>
> Samuel Lauber
>
> P.S. The battery information can be found by calling the program `pmset
> -g ps'; it outputs information in the following format:
>
> Currenty drawing from 'POWER_SRC Power'
> -InternalBattery-0 XX%; STATUS; ESTIMATE
>
> where `POWER_SRC' is either AC or Battery. XX is the percentage of charge.
> (N.B. It is never 100%; the highest value that my iBook will give is 99%).
> STATUS is either `AC attached' (power adapter plugged in and battery fully
> charged), `discharging' (running off battery power and taking power out of
> the battery), or `charging' (charging up). If the battery is out, the entire
> `XX%; STATUS...' line is replated with `(removed)'. Note that the first
> line has a typo. It might get fixed, so don't rely on it.
battery.el currently only knows how to get battery information from a
Linux kernel. I'll see if I can add support for iBooks running OS X.
Is calling "pmset -g ps" the canonical way to get battery information
on OS X? (Is that program typically installed?)
Lute.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-27 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-26 2:35 Emacs Battery mode cannot use iBook Sam Lauber
2005-06-27 8:47 ` Lute Kamstra [this message]
2005-06-27 9:24 ` Arne Jørgensen
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2005-06-27 20:04 Sam Lauber
2005-06-28 0:53 Sam Lauber
2005-06-28 21:14 Sam Lauber
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