Sweet! I saved the link. My intention is to take a look at the source code and then write my own ding-ding cli tool. It will be fun and I think it will give me a nice feeling when using it.
Thanks for the inspiration!
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can do sleep 15m; beep
One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.
Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.
Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.
Yes, anything can be done in a different way.
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#14> Around 100 LOC Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?
GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...
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#15Consider using \b instead of printing a new line every time. I've a huge scrollback configured and it can silently crash my terminal given a large enough wake time!
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#16> Around 100 LOC Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?
GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...
GNU programs are not a reference. They must have usage(), and handle --help and --version. Even /bin/true.
coreutils-8.25$ wc -l src/true.c
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#17Excellent. Will investigate. Currently using espeak to call out pomodoros (among other things - weather, motivational quotes, reminders) at set times. But of course you tune out after a while. This might be a more flexible solution. EDIT: CLI is the future :)
OK, based on the comment thread I'm now trying this:
sleep 25m; espeak "Take a break!"; notify-send "Get a cup of coffee, stretch, ignore existential angst"Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool
#18Emacs package Chronos:
https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.
Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.
X11 bell almost never works for me.
Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool
#20Consider using \b instead of printing a new line every time. I've a huge scrollback configured and it can silently crash my terminal given a large enough wake time!
Great point -- there's a pull request addressing this issue just now: https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4