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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: blinking the modeline
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:42:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84fzo9412l.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c6d3cf9e.0304230607.25d0fa7d@posting.google.com

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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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-23 14:07 blinking the modeline Rob Meyer
2003-04-23 16:42 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-04-23 17:18 ` Barry Margolin
2003-04-23 17:19 ` Piet van Oostrum

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