From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: George Kettleborough <g.kettleborough@uea.ac.uk>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Option for clock and timer to be displayed in frame-title
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:43:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lindlj6d.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqcpljil.fsf@norang.ca> (Bernt Hansen's message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:35:46 -0500")
Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
>
>> George Kettleborough <g.kettleborough@uea.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 28 2012, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>>> This patch needs a changelog entry in the commit text and a long
>>>> description would also be appreciated. The long description allows us
>>>> to see the purpose of the patch and how to use it without the necessity
>>>> to read and parse any of the code changes.
>>>
>>> Ok, I've done a changelog entry. I hope this is what is expected.
>>> (Also fixed a minor bug in original patch and added better documentation
>>> to the new custom variable).
>>>
>>> The patch adds options to both org-clock and org-timer regarding how the
>>> current clock/timer is displayed. Currently they are both displayed in
>>> the mode line. This is not ideal since if you split your window
>>> horizontally then the mode line becomes quite short so often the clock
>>> is truncated and the timer might not even be visible.
>>>
>>> The new options control whether the clock/timer is displayed in the mode
>>> line and/or frame title. The frame title is usually wasted space for
>>> people running a graphical version of emacs so it is quite useful there
>>> I think.
>>
>> Thanks! I use frames on Windows at work and no frames on Linux (in
>> xmonad) at home. I tend to run with emacs full screen so I haven't
>> my modeline is long enough for me -- but it will be interesting to see
>> how the frame title clock works.
>
> Hi George,
>
> I tried this patch at work and it hangs my Emacs session in Windows on
> startup. It's totally unresponsive and I have to kill the process with
> the task manager.
>
> I think there's an implementation problem here but I don't have any
> other useful information about what it might be.
Nevermind... it seems to be working on Windows now. I'm not sure what
happened the first time. I'll report any other issues I find with this.
Thanks!
Regards,
Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 21:44 [PATCH] Option for clock and timer to be displayed in frame-title g.kettleborough
2012-02-28 22:51 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-02-29 17:26 ` George Kettleborough
2012-03-01 1:43 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-06 17:35 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-06 17:43 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2012-03-06 18:00 ` George Kettleborough
2012-03-06 18:34 ` Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-06 18:48 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-06 19:59 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-04-23 13:12 ` Bastien
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