Re: Emacs as a desktop environment

[joakim]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 26 May 2011 18:38:16 +0200 address@hidden wrote: 
>
> j> When I want to know the time or network connectivity or something I
> j> press F5 to bring up a temporary Emacs buffer with that
> j> information. That way I can supposedly concentrate on work rather
> j> than staring at the clock.
>
> Can you show the code you use for F5?

(require 'battery)
(require 'timeclock)
(defun modeline-depopulator ()
  (interactive)
  (message "%s\n%s\n%s\n%s"
           (format-time-string "%H:%M %Y-%m-%d" (current-time))
           (battery-format battery-echo-area-format (funcall
                                                     battery-status-function))
           (timeclock-status-string)
           (shell-command-to-string "nmcli -p dev")

           ))
(global-set-key [f5] 'modeline-depopulator)


>
> Ted
>

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Joakim Verona