From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: blinking the modeline Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:42:58 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84fzo9412l.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051119414 15593 80.91.224.249 (23 Apr 2003 17:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 23 19:36:53 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 198OAv-00043I-00 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:36:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198OAW-0005ZA-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:36:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.telebyte.nl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e0e6.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e0e6.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.224.230) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051119291 7340151 217.225.224.230 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zWuwyXU2nJnMfuHe1dbuaFJC/xw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112233 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8729 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8729 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! -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)