From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: play-sound-file & esd Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:19:19 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: References: <44572E8B.6060102@swipnet.se> <44585258.7040506@swipnet.se> <445EF2F9.5060209@swipnet.se> <87r732wzz6.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> <44618798.3030901@swipnet.se> <4461E7DC.8070007@swipnet.se> <44697D66.5060300@swipnet.se> Reply-To: sds@podval.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147897218 8345 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2006 20:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 17 22:20:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSV7-0006tp-G9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:20:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSV6-0003Wq-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSUr-0003WW-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSUq-0003WK-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSUq-0003WH-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FgSXm-000148-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSUf-0006nS-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:19:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 209.213.205.130 ([209.213.205.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:19:41 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by 209.213.205.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:19:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.213.205.130 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QQPYDCaFoMUWGeroGNwFJkD68rY= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54658 Archived-At: > * Richard Stallman [2006-05-17 16:07:51 -0400]: > > Maybe a solution would be to make it possible to configure an external > player command, when the internal method is not suficient? > > If that works, it is good. For instance, if working thru esd can be > done conveniently by forking an external program, that would be an ok > implementation. we are going in circles. I already said before (in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:53961): if esd just happens not to be running at the moment, then esdplay will just hang. i.e., before running esdplay, one has to ensure that esd is up and running (and is in a workable state). -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) on Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) http://ffii.org http://honestreporting.com http://iris.org.il http://pmw.org.il http://jihadwatch.org http://palestinefacts.org http://truepeace.org Can I do it in Lisp, or would you rather wait an extra couple of months?