;; Display time and load in mode line of Emacs. ;; Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman. ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor ;; accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it ;; or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, ;; unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Emacs General Public ;; License for full details. ;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute ;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the ;; GNU Emacs General Public License. A copy of this license is ;; supposed to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you ;; can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a ;; file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice ;; and this notice must be preserved on all copies. (defvar display-time-process nil) (defun display-time () "Display current time and load level in mode line of each buffer. Updates automatically every minute." (interactive) (let ((live (and display-time-process (eq (process-status display-time-process) 'run)))) (if (not live) (save-excursion (if display-time-process (delete-process display-time-process)) (setq global-mode-string "time and load") (setq display-time-process (start-process "display-time" nil (expand-file-name "loadst" exec-directory) "-n" "60")) (process-kill-without-query display-time-process) (set-process-sentinel display-time-process 'display-time-sentinel) (set-process-filter display-time-process 'display-time-filter))))) (defun display-time-sentinel (proc reason) (or (eq (process-status proc) 'run) (setq global-mode-string "")) ;; Force mode-line updates (save-excursion (set-buffer (other-buffer))) (set-buffer-modified-p (buffer-modified-p)) (sit-for 0)) (defun display-time-filter (proc string) ;; Desired data can't need more than the last 30 chars, ;; so save time by flushing the rest. ;; This way, if we have many different times all collected at once, ;; we can discard all but the last few very fast. (if (> (length string) 30) (setq string (substring string -30))) ;; Now discard all but the very last one. (while (string-match "[0-9]+:" string 4) (setq string (substring string (match-beginning 0)))) ;; Append the date if desired. (if display-time-day-and-date (setq string (concat (substring (current-time-string) 0 11) string))) ;; Install the new time for display. (setq global-mode-string string) ;; Force redisplay of all buffers' mode lines to be considered. (save-excursion (set-buffer (other-buffer))) (set-buffer-modified-p (buffer-modified-p)) ;; Do redisplay right now, if no input pending. (sit-for 0))