Customise status with time remaining

[jmetz]

I wanted to see a "time to next save" instead of just the time between saves, so for now I've just hacked away at https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum/blob/master/scripts/continuum_status.sh, so that I now see:

Do you have any plans to add functionality to make such customization easier / not require messing with the internals of this plugin (or is that already possible and I missed it)?

[j-rahman]

Could you please tell me how to incorporate that in my .tmux.conf? Thank you.

[jmetz]

Could you please tell me how to incorporate that in my .tmux.conf? Thank you.

As I mentioned, it's not something you can currently achieve using just the .tmux.conf (which is why this issue exists!).

Here are the changes I made to https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum/blob/master/scripts/continuum_status.sh:

diff --git a/scripts/continuum_status.sh b/scripts/continuum_status.sh
index 280cf00..83b488b 100755
--- a/scripts/continuum_status.sh
+++ b/scripts/continuum_status.sh
@@ -4,21 +4,39 @@ CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 
 source "$CURRENT_DIR/helpers.sh"
 source "$CURRENT_DIR/variables.sh"
+source "$CURRENT_DIR/shared.sh"
+
+get_interval() {
+	get_tmux_option "$auto_save_interval_option" "$auto_save_interval_default"
+}
+
+
+current_timestamp() {
+	echo "$(date +%s)"
+	"$(date +%s)"
+}
 
 print_status() {
-	local save_int="$(get_tmux_option "$auto_save_interval_option")"
+        local save_int="$(get_tmux_option "$auto_save_interval_option")"
 	local status=""
+	local style_wrap="$(get_tmux_option "$status_on_style_wrap_option" "")"
 	local style_wrap
 	if [ $save_int -gt 0 ]; then
-		style_wrap="$(get_tmux_option "$status_on_style_wrap_option" "")"
-		status="$save_int"
+            local last_saved_timestamp="$(get_tmux_option "$last_auto_save_option" "0")"
+            local interval_minutes="$(get_interval)"
+            local interval_seconds="$((interval_minutes * 60))"
+            local next_run="$((last_saved_timestamp + $interval_seconds))"
+            local now="$(date +%s)"
+            local secs="$((next_run - now))"
+            local til_next_save=$(printf '%02dh:%02dm:%02ds\n' $((secs/3600)) $((secs%3600/60)) $((secs%60)))
+            status="$til_next_save"
 	else
-		style_wrap="$(get_tmux_option "$status_off_style_wrap_option" "")"
-		status="off"
+	    style_wrap="$(get_tmux_option "$status_off_style_wrap_option" "")"
+	    status="off"

 	fi
 
 	if [ -n "$style_wrap" ]; then
-		status="${style_wrap/$status_wrap_string/$status}"
+	    status="${style_wrap/$status_wrap_string/$status}"
 	fi
 	echo "$status"
 }

Git diff attached as a txt file:

tmp.diff.txt

or as a drop-in replacement:

continuum_status.sh.txt

NB: This needs to be renamed to remove the trailing .txt - that was just so that github would accept it!

[jmetz]

The corresponding line in the .tmux.conf that shows the save time and the icon:

set -g status-right '💾#{continuum_status}#[fg=colour233,bg=colour241,bold] %d/%m #[fg=colour233,bg=colour245,bold] %H:%M:%S '

[j-rahman]

Thank you for the explanation.