alarm-clock

An alarm clock for Emacs

Requirements

• Emacs 24 or higher
• mpg123 (gnu/linux, Cygwin and Windows)
• terminal-notifier (macOS)
• notify-send (gnu/linux)

Get started

• Via MELPA.

• Get alarm-clock

  • Manually download alarm-clock and set-up your load path.

• To auto-start alarm-clock every time you open Emacs add these lines to your .emacs file:

    (require 'alarm-clock) ; Not needed if you use package.el
  

Basic Usage

alarm-clock-set

Set an alarm clock with the time following tips.
TIME can be "6"(6 seconds), "11 minutes", "10 hours", "11:40pm", etc.
MESSAGE will be shown when notifying at setting time.

alarm-clock-list-view

Display the alarm clock list.
Use a to set a new alarm clock, d or C-k to delete current alarm
clock, g to refresh the view, and space (' ') to turn off
a ringing alarm (M-x alarm-clock-stop).

alarm-clock-stop

Turn off the currently ringing alarm.

alarm-clock-save

Save alarm-clock to cache file.

alarm-clock-restore

Restore alarm-clock from cache file.

Configurations

Enable autosave-and-restore feature

• Change cache file path by setting the variable alarm-clock-cache-file to any file path you like.

• Add these lines to your .emacs file:

    (alarm-clock-turn-autosave-on)
  

Q & A

• Meet (wrong-type-argument package-desc nil) on Mac OSX.

  • Install gnu-tar.

    brew install gnu-tar

  • Try to set quelpa-build-tar-executable to the path of gtar, (e.g "/usr/local/bin/gtar").

  • Then reinstall this package.

Appendix

I'd be glad to receive patches, comments and your considered criticism.

Have fun with alarm-clock!