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Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date |
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Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:05:30 -0400 |
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> I was wondering if there is a possibility to display current time and date
> on the right side (right-aligned) of the minibuffer (similarly to how trays
> do on desktops)? I'm OK with the fact that it can disappear when one uses
> minibuffer (for `M-x' or whatever), but it should appear again as soon as
> minibuffer is idle. I'm also aware of
I'd welcome a package that lets you display such info in the minibuffer.
This has been requested several times already.
Basically, the situation is that what you call the "minibuffer" is
actually a mini-window. Those windows can display normal buffers.
Among the buffers they display, are the so-called minibuffers, which are
normal buffers, named like " *Minibuf-N*", used during minibuffer input.
There are also echo-area buffers (2 of them, named " *Echo Area 0/1*")
which are used to display "message"s.
IIUC, the "idle minibuffer" AFAIK is actually displaying the buffer
" *Minibuf-0*", so if you put the data you want into that buffer, it
should be displayed where/when you want it.
E.g. try:
M-: (with-current-buffer " *Minibuf-0*" (insert "I'm Idle!")) RET
*BUT*, IIRC there is somewhere in the C code where we sometimes just
"clear" the mini-window (under the assumption that the buffer it
displays doesn't contain anything) instead of actually displaying its
content, so in order for such a package to work reliably, we may need to
patch the C code. But it might work well enough to be usable without
such a patch.
Stefan
- Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Alexander Shukaev, 2015/04/22
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/22
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- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/22
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2015/04/23
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- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/23
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2015/04/23
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- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/23
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, tomas, 2015/04/24
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2015/04/24
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2015/04/24