alarm-clock

An alarm clock for Emacs

Requirements

Emacs 24 or higher
mpg123 (gnu/linux & 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!

wlemuel/alarm-clock