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- ;From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
- ;Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- ;Subject: GNU Emacs startup service
- ;Message-ID: <3468@mhres.mh.nl>
- ;Date: 19 Aug 89 09:01:54 GMT
- ;Organization: Multihouse NV, the Netherlands
- ;Lines: 76
- ;
- ;I like GNU Emacs to be started from my .profile when I login, and I
- ;use the following startup file to have Emacs present me screenful of
- ;things I want to know when I login, e.g. mail status, disk status
- ;etc.. It could invoke the mail handler for me, but my mail is
- ;automatically fetched by Emacs as soon as it appears.
- ;
- ;Take it for what it's worth, I like it.
- ;
- ;;; StartUp.el
- ;;;
- ;;; Automatic services performed upon startup
- ;;;
- ;;; Usage: enter the following line in your .profile or .login:
- ;;;
- ;;; emacs -l StartUp.el
- ;;;
- ;;; Note: BSD sites need to change "remsh" into "rsh".
- ;;;
- ;;; This file is hereby declared Public Domain
- ;;;
- ;;; 1989, Johan Vromans
-
- ;; setup the startup buffer
- (setq StartUp-buffer "*StartUp*")
- (get-buffer-create StartUp-buffer)
- (switch-to-buffer StartUp-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
-
- (insert "Starting up...\n\n")
-
- (defun jv-check-file (file msg)
- "Checks if FILE exists and has a non-zero length. Inserts MESSAGE if
- this is true."
- (if (and
- (file-exists-p file)
- (> (nth 7 (file-attributes file)) 0))
- (insert (concat msg "\n"))))
-
- (jv-check-file "~/maildir/ToDo" "There are things to be done.")
- (jv-check-file "~/maildir/printq" "There are things to be printed.")
- (jv-check-file "~/maildir/risks" "There are RISKs to be read.")
-
- (defun jv-check-mail-file (user)
- "Checks if there is a non-empty mailbox for USER. Inserts a message if so."
- (let ((the-file (concat rmail-spool-directory user)))
- (if (and
- (file-exists-p the-file)
- (> (nth 7 (file-attributes the-file)) 0))
- (insert (concat "There is mail for " user ".\n")))))
-
- ;; Check mine and other relevant mail files
- (mapcar 'jv-check-mail-file
- '("jv" "root" "system" "news" "mailer" "mems" "uucp"))
-
- ;; Disk status on this system
- (insert "\nDisk Status:\n")
- (call-process "df" nil t nil)
-
- ;; Disk status on the news archive.
- (insert "\nDisk Status on mh_eng:\n")
- (call-process "remsh" nil t nil "mh_eng" "df")
-
- (insert "\n")
- (call-process "fortune" nil t nil)
-
- ;; Wrap up
- (insert "\nStartup complete.\n")
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
-
- ;;; End of StatUp.el
- ;--
- ;Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones
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