Overview

Emacs progress reporter with fancy characters.

• Quickstart
• Explanation
• See Also
• Notes
• Compatibility and Requirements

Quickstart

(require 'unicode-progress-reporter)
 
(unicode-progress-reporter-setup)
 
;; to see a demo
(unicode-progress-reporter-test)

Explanation

This is a trivial modification to Emacs' built-in progress reporter to display spinners using Unicode characters.

To use unicode-progress-reporter, place the unicode-progress-reporter.el library somewhere Emacs can find it, and add the following to your ~/.emacs file:

(require 'unicode-progress-reporter)
(unicode-progress-reporter-setup)

See Also

• M-x customize-group RET unicode-progress-reporter RET

Notes

Redefines progress-reporter-do-update.

Alters private variable progress-reporter--pulse-characters.

Compatibility and Requirements

GNU Emacs version 24.4-devel     : yes, at the time of writing
GNU Emacs version 24.3           : yes
GNU Emacs version 23.3 and lower : no

Requires ucs-utils.el

Uses if present: unicode-fonts.el