John Kitchin <jkitc...@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)? -- ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
