Customizing the modeline

Customizing the modeline

[Julien Cubizolles]

I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of
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mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
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for example?

Julien.

Re: Customizing the modeline

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
() Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:28:42 +0100

   I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
   modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the
   output of

   mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"

   for example?

What is ease but low-stress effort?
What is effort but deviation from stillness?
What is stillness but calming your point of view?
What is your point of view but where you are now?
What is where you are now but where you were plus effort?

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Re: Customizing the modeline

[J. David Boyd]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

> () Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
> () Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:28:42 +0100
>
>    I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
>    modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the
>    output of
>
>    mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
>
>    for example?
>
> What is ease but low-stress effort?
> What is effort but deviation from stillness?
> What is stillness but calming your point of view?
> What is your point of view but where you are now?
> What is where you are now but where you were plus effort?


Well, that didn't help, but it made me smile!

Dave

Re: Customizing the modeline

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd)
() Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:42:48 -0500

   Well, that didn't help, but it made me smile!

Well, like they say, abstraction is a smile,
recursion a smile and a wink, infloop insanity.

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Re: Customizing the modeline

[Michael Heerdegen]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
> modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of
>
> mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
>
> for example?

You probably don't wan to run this command every time the mode-line is
recalculated (which can be quite frequently).

Do you control mpc from within Emacs?


Michael.

Re: Customizing the modeline

[Emanuel Berg]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> I'd like to display the track currently played my
> mpd in the modeline.

HA! :D I'm speechless, but have a look at this, it
might help you:

    http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/mode-line.el

Basically get your data to some data structure and
then put it into the above code, which you might have
to clean from my stuff, of course.

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Re: Customizing the modeline

[Emanuel Berg]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

>    Well, that didn't help, but it made me smile!
>
> Well, like they say, abstraction is a smile,
> recursion a smile and a wink, infloop insanity.

I think TTN should have some quota that he is only
allowed to joke and publish poetry after he has shared
some amount of his very slick Lisp to help the lost...

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Re: Customizing the modeline

[Quanyang Liu]

On Wed, Dec 31 2014 at 04:28:42 +0800, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
> I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
> modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of
> mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
> for example?
>
> Julien.

ahhh... I found there is too many information in my modeline, which
confused me a lot... But I only add the battery useage...

By the way, maybe the followings two links will help :)
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/mingus.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NowPlaying

Re: Customizing the modeline

[Julien Cubizolles]

Quanyang Liu <lqymgt@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 31 2014 at 04:28:42 +0800, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
>> I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
>> modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of
>> mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
>> for example?
>>
>> Julien.
>
> ahhh... I found there is too many information in my modeline, which
> confused me a lot... But I only add the battery useage...
>
> By the way, maybe the followings two links will help :)
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/mingus.el

Actually I was trying to hack the modeline by myself because mingus.el
(that I use all the time) didn't seem to use the way its documentation
advertised. I posted a message on the github forum
(https://github.com/pft/mingus/issues/8) and this problem has been
swiftly fixed by the author.

All of you running mingus, try to the "song" branch.

Julien.

Re: Customizing the modeline

[Julien Cubizolles]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
>> modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of
>>
>> mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
>>
>> for example?
>
> You probably don't wan to run this command every time the mode-line is
> recalculated (which can be quite frequently).
>
> Do you control mpc from within Emacs?

Yes I do, with mingus.el. And as I stated in another reply, a recent fix
to mingus solved its modeline problem.

Julien.

Re: Customizing the modeline

[Julien Cubizolles]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:


> HA! :D I'm speechless, but have a look at this, it
> might help you:
>
>     http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/mode-line.el
>
> Basically get your data to some data structure and
> then put it into the above code, which you might have
> to clean from my stuff, of course.

Thanks, I'm not sure I'm ready to delve this deep yet, but I'll try to
study your code.

Julien.