Emacs notifications with notification :off

[danielma]

I have an issue where the default emacs notification gets run even with notification(:off) in my ~/.guard.rb.

I'd like to use a custom Emacs script like this one in the wiki but when I allow notifications to be on at all, my mode-line background color changes with every guard run.

Here's my setup.

# ~/.guard.rb

notification(
  :emacs,
  elisp_file: '~/.dotfiles/ruby/notiffany.erb',
  success: 'ok',
  failed: 'error',
  default: 'Black',
  fontcolor: 'White'
)

# ~/.dotfiles/ruby/notiffany.erb

(progn
  (if (string= "<%= bgcolor %>" "ok")
      (setq mode-line-guard-status 'ok)
    (setq mode-line-guard-status 'error))
  (force-mode-line-update))

When I run bundle exec guard -d, I can see that my elisp file is being run, and I'm seeing what I expect, but the default elisp snippet is also run.

If I set notification(:off) in ~/.guard.rb and run bundle exec guard -d I don't see any notification output in the terminal, but the default elisp snippet is run anyways.

The only way I've been able to get the default elisp snippet to stop running is to use guard with --no-notify or to set GUARD_NOTIFY=false in my terminal, which means I can't get any notifications.

Can you help me only get my custom emacs notification, and turn the default one off?

[danielma]

I've done my best to debug this issue, but I can't wrap my head around what's going on. I've puts debugged as much of notiffany as I can, trying to figure out why it seems like emacs is being notified twice, but I can't seem to find any traces of it

[danielma]

Turns out, this was actually a problem in guard-minitest. Looks like it was fixed in guard/guard-minitest#141