jtamagnan / hangups.el

A package to allow sue of hangups_cli

Hangups.el

Hangups.el is a hangouts interface for emacs.

It uses the hangups library and the hangups_cli library to send and recieve hangouts messages and google voice sms messages.

Installation

First you must install hangups_cli which will soon be available through the python package installer pip but is currently only installable through source.

Then you must include the package in your init file, an example of which is shown below.

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/hangups.el/")
(require 'hangups)

The package will be added to melpa when it is in a more polished state (soon)!

Info

There is a variable called hangups/convs-unread that is an integer representing how many conversations have unread messages. It is updated everytime that hangups is called or that the list of conversations is updated hangups-list-refresh. It is then possible to refresh the conversation list every minute on a timer and then display the variable in your modeline, to have a constant view of how many messages are unread.

Here is a quick example, directly from my init file of what I mean. This code appends the number of unread messages to the end of the time string that is displayed in the modeline:

(setq display-time-24hr-format t)

(setq display-time-default-load-average nil)

;; refresh conversation list every minute
(add-hook 'hangups-mode-hook (lambda () (run-with-timer 120 (* 1 60) 'hangups-list-refresh)))

;; set base display string
(setq display-time-string-forms
   '(" " 24-hours ":" minutes " "))

;; add to the display-string the number of unread messages
(setq display-time-string-forms
  (append
    display-time-string-forms
    '((if (boundp 'hangups/convs-unread)
          (propertize
            (concat "Texts(" (int-to-string hangups/convs-unread) ")") ;; surround the number by "Texts()"
            'font-lock-face '(:background "black" :foreground "white")))))) ;; what the font style should be

;; display the time
(display-time-mode)

The biggest issue with this is that it checks for updates every minute and then the visual is only updated every minute therefore it can take up to two minutes before you are notified of a new message.

Disclaimer

This software is still very much a work in progress; I have plans: to implement more features, and clean up the code. Please bare with me and don't forget to report any issues or new requested features!