my first reaction is "useless cruft" -- sorry my 2nd is, find the "vim way": don't build the sound into vim, use an external voice synthesizer that vim would send text messages to with informative error info -- the user would be left to assign their own voice to whatever synthesizer they came up with, leaving it portable in the sense that surely windows and mac can come up with (however expensive) their own dang synthesizer that can accept text and speak it
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:08 AM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been wondering if it would help if Vim could play a sound. Think > of a gentle "ping" to indicate the cursor can't move there, or a > "tadaa" when a background build finishes successfully. At least I have > had times where I didn't notice something that was going on, because I > was looking in the wrong place. Currently there only is the annoying > beep (which I usually have disabled). > > I wonder how useful this would be. It's probably a matter of taste > anyway. And it only works locally (unless there is an xterm sequence to > play a sound?). > > And I wonder if it can be implemented in a way it's portable. There are > some audio libraries floating around, but I don't expect the "-dev" > version to be installed on most systems. Perhaps MS-Windows has > something that's always available? > > Another way would be to use a system command (in the background), but > that could have some latency. > > -- > From "know your smileys": > ...---... SOS > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ > /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ > \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// > \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/201906041307.x54D7s43025572%40masaka.moolenaar.net. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CALfSX1xqGi1QZ-qrvF3dkb7SX9nZT5UQv179YxirQZwC15kOjA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
