Display the wireless status on the emacs mode-line
I found this code1 to display the wireless status in the modeline.
A first attempt led to nothing i.e. nothing was shown in my modeline.
I had to modify the regex in order to match the output of /proc/net/wireless:
diff --git a/wireless.el b/wireless.el
index 55ec7fc..e08f864 100644
--- a/wireless.el
+++ b/wireless.el
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
:group 'wireless)
(defcustom wireless-procfile-regexp
- "^[ ]+\\(....\\):[ ]+\\([0-9]+\\)[ ]+\\([0-9]+\\)[ .]+\\([0-9]+\\)[ .]+\\([0-9]+\\)"
+ "\\(^.*\\):[ ]+\\([0-9]+\\)[ ]+\\([0-9]+\\)[ .]+\\(-?[0-9]+\\)[ .]+\\(-?[0-9]+\\)"
"*Regular expression for extracting proc-file data."
:type 'string
:group 'wireless)
cat /proc/net/wirelessInter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22
wlp3s0: 0000 59. -54. -256 0 0 0 2 195 0As as result, I now have the wireless card status displayed in my modeline:
