Four and a half years ago I wrote about proced and Mickey’s excellent post about it. Sadly, it didn’t work on the Mac so I forgot about it until I saw this tweet from psnebc:
#emacs #proced alternative to #htop #top
Displaying and Interacting with processes using Procedhttps://t.co/tYleKoK5RR pic.twitter.com/9fuuhZaTQx— psnebc (@psnebc) December 18, 2018
On a whim, I checked to see if it had finally been ported to the Mac and was delighted to find that it had. On rereading Mickey’s article, I see that in the comments Steve Purcell notes that they’d just merged support for the Mac into the Master branch. Mickey doesn’t supply any dates so it’s hard to know when Purcell made that comment but I’m guessing that it was contemporaneous with Mickey’s post. That means that:
- I’m probably the last person on Earth to learn that
procedis now available for the Mac, and - I’ve gone 4 years without the benefit of this excellent Emacs feature.
The bottom line for me is that now there’s one less function that I have to fall back to the shell for. I can get all the information that I’ve been depending on ps and top to give me right in an Emacs buffer. Life is good.