diff --git a/aliases b/aliases
index 6d951a7..af0c29d 100644
--- a/aliases
+++ b/aliases
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ alias -g NO='&>|/dev/null'
 # http://rayninfo.co.uk/tips/zshtips.html
 alias -g G='| grep -'
 alias -g P='| $PAGER'
+alias -g L='| less'
 
+# http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7284/zsh-suffix-to-inform-you-about-long-command-ending
+# zsh suffix to inform you about long command ending make, Just add "R" (without quotes) suffix to it and you can do other things: 
+# zsh will inform you when you can see the results.
+alias -g R=' &; jobs | tail -1 | read A0 A1 A2 cmd; echo "running $cmd"; fg "$cmd"; zenity --info --text "$cmd done"; unset A0 A1 A2 cmd'
 
 ##### suffix aliases (mostly mapped to xdg-open which runs the gnome/kde default app)
 
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 843356c..b6e32dc 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ bindkey '^Xs' run-with-sudo
 memtop() {ps -eorss,args | sort -nr | pr -TW$COLUMNS | head}
 zle -N memtop
 
+tmuxhglog() {
+	tmux kill-pane -t 1
+	tmux split-window -h -l 40 "while true; do clear; date; echo; hg xlog-small -l 5 || exit; sleep 600; done;"
+	tmux select-pane -t 0
+}
+
 # Escape potential tarbombs
 # http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6824/escape-potential-tarbombs
 atb() {
@@ -25,6 +31,22 @@ atb() {
 	fi ;
 }
 
+# http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4792/a-function-to-find-the-newest-file-in-a-directory
+newest () { find ${1:-\.} -type f |xargs ls -lrt ; }
+
+# http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7294/backup-a-file-with-a-date-time-stamp
+buf () {
+    oldname=$1;
+    if [ "$oldname" != "" ]; then
+        datepart=$(date +%Y-%m-%d);
+        firstpart=`echo $oldname | cut -d "." -f 1`;
+        newname=`echo $oldname | sed s/$firstpart/$firstpart.$datepart/`;
+        cp ${oldname} ${newname};
+    fi
+}
+
+atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}
+
 
 # reloads all functions
 # http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2002/msg00232.html
diff --git a/prompt b/prompt
index 8a73fc6..f37a53d 100644
--- a/prompt
+++ b/prompt
@@ -35,7 +35,18 @@ function precmd {
 
     ###
     # Get Mercurial info
-    PR_MESSAGE=`hg branch 2>/dev/null`
+    PR_HG_BRANCH=`hg branch 2>/dev/null`
+    if [ "$?" != "255" ]; then
+	#tmuxhglog
+        PR_HG_CHANGECOUNTER=`hg st 2>/dev/null | wc -l`
+        if [ "$PR_HG_CHANGECOUNTER" != "0" ]; then
+            PR_MESSAGE="$PR_HG_BRANCH ($PR_HG_CHANGECOUNTER)"
+        else
+            PR_MESSAGE="$PR_HG_BRANCH"
+        fi
+    else
+        PR_MESSAGE=""
+    fi
 }
 setopt extended_glob
 preexec () {