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* Proposed new core library: alert.el
@ 2015-11-05  2:05 John Wiegley
  2015-11-05  9:14 ` Artur Malabarba
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 62+ messages in thread
From: John Wiegley @ 2015-11-05  2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

alert.el is a library I've been using for the last four years to provide a
richer notification interface than `message'. The current version is here:

    https://github.com/jwiegley/alert/blob/master/alert.el

It supports many alert backends:

;;   fringe        - Changes the current frame's fringe background color
;;   mode-line     - Changes the current frame's mode-line background color
;;   gntp          - Uses gntp, it requires gntp.el (see https://github.com/tekai/gntp.el)
;;   growl         - Uses Growl on OS X, if growlnotify is on the PATH
;;   ignore        - Ignores the alert entirely
;;   libnotify     - Uses libnotify if notify-send is on the PATH
;;   log           - Logs the alert text to *Alerts*, with a timestamp
;;   message       - Uses the Emacs `message' facility
;;   notifications - Uses notifications library via D-Bus
;;   notifier      - Uses terminal-notifier on OS X, if it is on the PATH
;;   toaster       - Use the toast notification system

alert.el also allows highly configurable user-styles, for deciding when and
how various alerts are presented.

I'm not proposing Emacs be changed to use alert, only that alert be made
available to all package authors as a richer alternative to `message' or
`notifications-notify'.

I suggest core rather than ELPA because I'd like to encourage wider use of
such a facility; but I could see an argument for moving it into ELPA too.
Being in core would give justification for adding a section in the Elisp
manual on using alerts for rich notification. Or, we could start applying it
in existing core modules where it makes sense to do so.

John



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2015-11-05  2:05 Proposed new core library: alert.el John Wiegley
2015-11-05  9:14 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-05  9:21 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-05 11:39   ` Sven Axelsson
2015-11-05 16:09     ` Random832
2015-11-05 16:24 ` raman
2015-11-05 16:33 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2015-11-05 17:09   ` joakim
2015-11-05 17:09   ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-05 18:21   ` John Wiegley
2015-11-06 22:31     ` T.V Raman
2015-11-06 21:38   ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-07 13:20     ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-07 13:39       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-05 19:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-05 20:03   ` John Wiegley
2015-11-05 20:23     ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-05 20:33       ` John Wiegley
2015-11-05 22:24         ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-11-06 10:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-06 15:32           ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-06 15:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-06 16:01               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-06 16:20               ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-06 17:56                 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-06 18:10                   ` message-function (was: Proposed new core library: alert.el) Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-06 19:03                     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-07 13:31                       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-07 13:39                         ` message-function Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-06 21:20                 ` Proposed new core library: alert.el John Wiegley
2015-11-07 13:26                   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-07 10:40             ` Elias Mårtenson
     [not found]             ` <m2io5e6d39.fsf@newartisans.com>
2015-11-07 12:28               ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-07 13:09                 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-07 13:44                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-08 20:49                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-09  0:03                       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-09 21:50                 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 18:34                   ` Posting new feature proposals on the wiki? (was: Re: Proposed new core library: alert.el) Nicolas Petton
2015-11-10 18:40                     ` Posting new feature proposals on the wiki? John Wiegley
2015-11-11 16:14                     ` raman
2015-11-11 16:43                       ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 17:35                         ` T.V Raman
2015-11-11 23:27                           ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-11 23:40                             ` T.V Raman
2015-11-12 11:16                               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-12 16:40                                 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-12 22:34                               ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-16 16:52                                 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-16 17:03                                   ` raman
2015-11-06 15:50           ` Proposed new core library: alert.el John Wiegley
2015-11-06  1:47     ` raman
2015-11-06  2:16       ` John Wiegley
2015-11-06  9:47         ` Rasmus
2015-11-06 10:42           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-06 11:27             ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-06  9:50         ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-06 10:07           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-06 13:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-06 16:12         ` raman
2015-11-06 16:13           ` John Wiegley
2015-11-06 17:22             ` T.V Raman

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