From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vivek Dasmohapatra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed new core library: alert.el Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446741242 9849 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2015 16:34:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 17:34:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuNU7-0003Qh-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:33:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuNU7-0007I7-7L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuNU4-0007Hr-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuNU0-0007Ei-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ceres.etla.org ([85.119.82.193]:41593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuNU0-0007Cf-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:33:52 -0500 Original-Received: from platypus.pepperfish.net ([2a01:4f8:201:620f::2001]) by ceres.etla.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuNTt-0004BU-G5; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:33:45 +0000 X-X-Sender: vivek@platypus.pepperfish.net In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: Spam detection software, running on the system "ceres.etla.org", has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: > 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: If I might chip in here - and it may be that the library already does this - One of my main complaints about alerts (in general) is that they pop up and then disappear and if I'm not able to divert attention to them (in deep thought, momentarily away from my desk, beset by wombats, etc) I can't get back to them and see what I've missed. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 85.119.82.193 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193315 Archived-At: > 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: If I might chip in here - and it may be that the library already does this - One of my main complaints about alerts (in general) is that they pop up and then disappear and if I'm not able to divert attention to them (in deep thought, momentarily away from my desk, beset by wombats, etc) I can't get back to them and see what I've missed. Something like a timestamped version of *Messages* but just for *Alerts* would be great.