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John A Turner writes:

> Steven L Baur writes:
(Never mind, as it turns out :-)

> Jens Lautenbacher writes:

>> I just sent out an update to Steve, which fixes all this tty and
>> echo-area stuff -- and some more! 

:-)   :-)   :-)   :-)

Can you guess what I just installed? :-)

> Excellent.

>> (what do you think of an cool LED clock displaying the time?)

> Stop stop!  This is getting way too cool!  Gonna be worthy of that
> metallic-look logo yet.

No, don't stop, please!  I think Kyle's estimate of 2 years before we
live up to the metallic logo is off.

Just so y'all can see Jens' handiwork:


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Two suggestions before we wrap time.el up Jens, you might take a look
at the Gnus logo code where Lars cleverly adjusts the foreground color
from Lisp.  I've already converted the digit/colon glyphs to be
transparent.  Let's get the foreground color customizable before
anyone has a chance to complain. :-)

The other suggestion is about the am/pm indicator.  To be really like
a digital clock it ought to display as an upper dot and a lower dot. :-)

> All we need is a little animated paperclip thingie that pops up,
> wriggles around, bats it's eyes at us, and tries to be helpful.

Hmm.

> (That will only make sense if you've seen M$ Office 97.)


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