Re: [O] progress indicator for code blocks?

[John Kitchin]

No, it does not seem to work for me. C-g kills the current evaluation
for me.

Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for this snippet - I think something along these lines should be
> included into org out-of-the-box. 
>
> There are many cases where I simply use C-g to go back to emacs while
> the evaluation is still running - would your snippet still work?
>
> Rainer
>
>
> John Kitchin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> John Kitchin <address@hidden> 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)?

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