genlop -c mode is a good tool for watching the progress of the noisy emerge, but it lacks the ability to repeat the call to genlop in a loop.

This little tool wraps around genlop, so you will get updates every second. If you like me is using X/Windows you can make a mini terminal window having the tool run with a little status.

Technical and usage details:

It's a simple bash script using tput (from ncurses) and grep.

It's released under GPLv3