Emacs for IM: Notification

Emacs for IM: Notification

[briwood]

Hi,

I'm trying yod.el to chat via Yahoo.  I'm on GNU Emacs for windows
22.1.1.

I would like to find a way to bring the emacs window to the front when
someone initiates a chat with me.  Is there any way to get emacs to
interact with either the windows (vista) os or some third party
software that could notify me of events like this?

Thanks for any ideas.

Re: Emacs for IM: Notification

[Tassilo Horn]

briwood <deweysquare@gmail.com> writes:

Hi!

> I'm trying yod.el to chat via Yahoo.  I'm on GNU Emacs for windows
> 22.1.1.
>
> I would like to find a way to bring the emacs window to the front when
> someone initiates a chat with me.  Is there any way to get emacs to
> interact with either the windows (vista) os or some third party
> software that could notify me of events like this?

I use rcirc (combined with bitlbee) for IRC and IM chat.  I use this
function to get notifications if my nick was mentioned in a channel or I
got a private message.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun th-rcirc-notification (process sender response target text)
  (let ((my-nick (rcirc-nick process))
        (wm (getenv "WINDOW_MANAGER")))
    (when (and (string= response "PRIVMSG")
               (not (string= sender my-nick))
               (or
                ;; BitlBee messages
                (string-match "localhost" (format "%s" process))
                ;; Messages that mention my name
                (string-match my-nick text)))
      (cond
       ;; StumpWM
       ((string= wm "stumpwm")
        (th-notifications-add (concat "rcirc: " target)))
       ;; Other (use libnotifies notify-send)
       (t (start-process "rcirc-notify-send" nil "notify-send" "-t" "172800000"
                         (concat "(rcirc) " target ": " text)))))))

(add-hook 'rcirc-print-hooks 'th-rcirc-notification)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Depending on the current window manager the notifications differ.  For
any WM except stumpwm I use libnotify's notify-send command which pops
up a simple message with the text I received.

HTH,
Tassilo

Re: Emacs for IM: Notification

[Jason Rumney]

On Apr 2, 7:15 pm, briwood <deweysqu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to find a way to bring the emacs window to the front when
> someone initiates a chat with me.

The function `raise-frame' seems to be what you want.

Re: Emacs for IM: Notification

[briwood]

Thank you very much for your responses. I'll give that a try.