Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!mende From: mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: RE: time display in mode line Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 89 15:45:02 GMT References: Organization: Yows `R' us Lines: 18 In article jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes: > Someone responded with M-x display time (which works wonderfully...) > Now, how do I set up my .emacs file so that it loads automatically? > Also, whatever in the world does the information it displays stand > for? I mean given (11:06pm 0.62[5]) I realize that 11:06pm is the > time. but what is 0.62[5]? Curious.... > > > iain the 0.62 (in your case) is the load avg. of your machine. the [5] is some disk ratio, and I have never been able to make any sence of it. What I did is modify the display time filter to remove this. While my own version of loadst would be more efficient, I move my .emacs all over the place, so did it this way. -- {...}!rutgers!mende mende@cs.rutgers.edu mende@zodiac.bitnet