Listing process status in buffer list

Listing process status in buffer list

[Richard Stallman]

    By the way, in various buffer lists
    .*  *compilation*      58  Compilation
    should also mention if its process is running or not, I suppose along
    with shell window listings, etc.

That is a good idea, and would not be hard to implement if
list-buffers is taught to look in some new buffer-local variable for
some extra text to put at the end of the line.

Would someone like to do it?

Re: Listing process status in buffer list

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:42, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     By the way, in various buffer lists
>     .*  *compilation*      58  Compilation
>     should also mention if its process is running or not, I suppose along
>     with shell window listings, etc.
> 
> That is a good idea, and would not be hard to implement if
> list-buffers is taught to look in some new buffer-local variable for
> some extra text to put at the end of the line.
> 
> Would someone like to do it?

I should probably point out that ibuffer already has a process column,
and if it didn't it would be easy to define it oneself:

(define-ibuffer-column process ()
  (ibuffer-aif (get-buffer-process buffer)
      (format "(%s %s)" it (process-status it))
    "none"))

Then put `process' anywhere in your `ibuffer-formats'.  
I personally use:

(setq ibuffer-formats '((mark modified read-only " " (name 16 16 :left :elide) " "
				(size 6 -1 :right) " "
				(mode 16 16 :center :elide)
				" " (process 8 -1) " " filename)
			  (mark " " (name 16 -1) " " filename)))

This displays the process entry right before the filename.