Re: playing sounds from Emacs

[Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>]

> (shell-command "omx-play-sound ~/bo/up.mp3")

To use `shell-command' like that means
everything halts until the command has been
executed, which we can't have, but simply
putting an "&" after - to make it
"asynchronous" which is a nice way of saying
the command will be executed in yet another
shell, a subshell - that won't work. I get ugly
output in buffer "*Async Shell Command*".
and an error message:

    exited abnormally with code 1.

Perhaps some shell color codes are, well,
"async"! (So yes, in principle it should work.)

Anyway without digging into that, I have
another function that will do the job if an
ampersand (&) is appended the command. Here it
is:

    (defun shell-command-silent (command)
      "Execute a shell COMMAND.
    Use & after the command to execute it in the background,
    without output to the echo area."
      (process-file shell-file-name
                    nil ; INFILE
                    nil ; BUFFER
                    nil ; DISPLAY
                    shell-command-switch command) )

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