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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: progress indicator for code blocks?
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:18:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wq9mbct6.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2a96kx3vz.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> (John Kitchin's message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:03:28 -0400")

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Thanks for this snippet - I think something along these lines should be
included into org out-of-the-box. 

There are many cases where I simply use C-g to go back to emacs while
the evaluation is still running - would your snippet still work?

Rainer


John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> I am currently using this bit of advice to change the color of code
> blocks while they are being executed so there is a visual hint something
> is happening.
>
> ;; give us some hint we are running
> (defadvice org-babel-execute-src-block (around progress nil activate)
>   (set-face-attribute
>    'org-block-background nil :background "LightSteelBlue")
>   (message "Running your code block")
>   ad-do-it
>   (set-face-attribute 'org-block-background nil :background "gray")
>   (message "Done with code block"))
>
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am using org-mode in a class, and some students wondered if it was
>> possible for there to be a progress bar of some kind while a code block
>> is running. Right now Emacs just appears to lock up and there is no
>> indication anything is happening, especially the first time we run a
>> python block.
>>
>> I found make-progress-reporter and tried something like this::
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> (defadvice org-babel-execute-src-block (around progress nil activate)
>>   (let ((pr (make-progress-reporter "Running")))
>>     ad-do-it
>>     (progress-reporter-done pr)))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> but there is no way to update it, so it doesn't quite do anything
>> useful.
>>
>> What I would really like is an hourglass or some spinning thing. Does
>> anyone know how to get that (in a cross-platform way)?

-- 
Rainer M. Krug
email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-30 13:02 progress indicator for code blocks? John Kitchin
2014-08-31 12:03 ` John Kitchin
2014-09-02  9:18   ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2014-09-02 14:19     ` John Kitchin
2014-09-03  4:55       ` Nick Dokos

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