biff4emacsen - A biff-like tool for (X)Emacs |
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I like to have a little mail indicator icon in the mode line of my XEmacs (or Emacs these days), which informs me about incoming email independently of a running email client. As a former VM user I have used time.el to reach this objective. Someday I decided to test the Wanderlust email client. But switching over from VM to Wanderlust means also switching from mbox format to maildir format and unfortunately time.el does not work with maildirs. Wanderlust itself has such mail indicator feature. But it only works if Wanderlust is running. After some unsuccessful searching I decided to start my own project: biff4emacsen. It should have at least the following properties:
First hackMy first hack (yeah, you will find only hacks on this page ;-) fulfils all properties, except the last one. Every time the maildirs are checked, (X)Emacs stops processing keyboard input, screen refreshing, etc. Depending on the number of observed maildirs, harddisk speed, etc. this 'feature' becomes very annoying. Maybe there is a simple solution to this problem. But I am not a true lisp hacker, so I decided to drop the second property and go on with the Second hackThis approach splits the task into
This hack is still under development. But it is usable and the yet implemented features work flawlessly. Installation and UsageInstallation is done in less than five minutes. Just download the package, unpack it and follow the README. FeedbackFeel free to contact me (pkgs@c0t0d0s0.de) and tell me your opinion about biff4emacsen. Do you find biff4emacsen useful? Or is it the most superfluous thing you have seen in ages? Perhaps you have some feature requests? Downloads
LicenseAll biff4emacsen stuff is released under the GNU General Public License, Version 2. |
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