[H-GEN] comsat/biff question (fwd)

[Christopher Biggs]

"Laurence J. Rietberg" <lr at cltr.uq.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 
> What I would really like is if I can get mail notification that pops up on
> the screen, rather than when I press the enter key.  
> 
> any ideas are appreciated.
> regards,

It can be done quite easily...

The X terminal-emulator "rxvt" will (i.e. "has an option to")
de-iconify when a BEL ('^G') is sent to the window.

My wee bifftail program runs (showing the recent entries in my
delivery log) in a small window (it can be one line) and pops up
whenever new mail arrives.

cjb.

--
(setq sender '( (name . "Christopher Biggs") (email . "chris at stallion.oz.au")
                (employer . "Stallion Technologies") (ph . "+61 7 3270-4266")
		(fax . "+61 7 3270 4245")    ( favourite-editor . "EMACS" )))
(setq pgp-enabled-p t) (setq mime-enabled-p t)
(insert (format "This message was brought to you by %s using %s\n"
                (cdr (assq 'email sender)) 
                (cdr (assq 'favourite-editor sender))))