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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: babel completion notification
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:39:09 -0400
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To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
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Hi Eric,

On 2014-03-17 at 17:05, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Until asynchronous babel exists, it would be nice to at least be
>> notified when long-running tasks complete. Does anyone have advice
>> how to set up a hook on babel completion so that growl or some
>> other system notification alerts, perhaps only if the execution
>> took more than x seconds?
>
> You can use the org-babel-after-execute-hook to run any action after a
> code block finishes executing.

Yes, and your reply makes me recall that :post works too, so I can
call a shell command "notifier" (or Growl) like this:
 
#+BEGIN_SRC python -n :results output :post (shell-command-to-string "notifier 'babel done'")
print "hello, world"
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:

Thanks,

  -k.