A simple package to disconnect from the online world for a while, possibly reconnecting later. Any interruptions or distractions which occur once the command is run are guaranteed to be local.
the package can be installed from melpa M-x package-install [RET] quiet [RET]
M-x quiet will disconnect from the network, optionally reconnecting after a certain time.
the function quiet can be used anywhere in emacs where a lack of network access could be seen as a feature, e.g. as a mode-hook (or with defadvice) to your preferred distraction free writing environment.
M-x quiet-reconnect will manually reconnect to the network, however you can enable a timer to automatically reconnect by setting quiet-timer to a number of minutes. e.g. (setq quiet-timer 60) will enable quiet to reconnect after one hour. if quiet-timer is set to 0 it won’t reconnect automatically.
you may want to customize or setq quiet-disconnect and quiet-connect to the appropriate shell commands to turn your network (or single interface) on or off.
- MacOS (current default).
networksetup -setairportpower airport {on,off} - GNU/Linux.
ifup wlan0andifdown wlan0 - *BSD.
service netif {stop, start}