From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: vkill.el Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085159030 27249 80.91.224.253 (21 May 2004 17:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 21 19:03:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRDQo-0006eK-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:03:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRDQo-0004s3-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:03:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRDQC-0006Us-PG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BRDPZ-0006D4-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BRDOv-0005xb-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 13:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRDId-0004BA-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 12:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Fri, 21 May 2004 16:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23819 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23819 The `vkill.el' library is useful and should be included in the new release. Back in April of 1989, Kyle Jones wrote a new version of vkill, which is an Emacs interface to `ps'. The name comes from your ability to view and, if you wish kill, various processes. I have been using the package for the past 15 years. Nowadays, I configure it to run: ps -ewo user,pid,ppid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,command --sort=pid when I type `M-x vkill'. As far as I know, this command is still not a part of the regular Emacs distribution, either under a name involving `ps' or as `vkill'. (I just looked.) Kyle Jones is not on the CVS list of members, but he did write `life.el', which is a part of the current distribution. It should be possible to gain legal permission from him to use his work, if we do not have it already. When Kyle wrote life.el, his address was . I have also see his address as , which has his Web page , last updated 3 years ago. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises As I slowly update it, bob@rattlesnake.com I rewrite a "What's New" segment for http://www.rattlesnake.com