From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sound in Emacs Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:27:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87aa9ex9ew.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <8762k2iov8.fsf@notam02.no> <87lisyh41l.fsf@notam02.no> <87vcs2xhas.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317925671 19078 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 18:27:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andersvi@notam02.no, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 20:27:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsfX-0004ad-IO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:27:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsfW-0002DP-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsfS-0002DI-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsfR-0003lG-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:52285 helo=mail.esperi.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsfR-0003l3-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from esperi.org.uk (nix@spindle.srvr.nix [192.168.14.15]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p96IRZPM002500; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:27:35 +0100 Original-Received: (from nix@localhost) by esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p96IRZsT018925; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:27:35 +0100 Emacs: because one operating system isn't enough. In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:54:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-STAT_FI_X86_64_VIRTUAL-Metrics: spindle 1245; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 81.187.191.129 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144629 Archived-At: On 6 Oct 2011, Stefan Monnier said: >>> And then there is Stefan's Music Player Daemon (MPD) - >>> dunno about that either, but it sounds like it employs an actual "database" >>> (unlike Bookmark+ (and Org, I imagine), which holds the metadata in plain text >>> files). >> MPD's 'database' is just a (UTF-8-encoded) text file (as is its >> saved-state file in the same directory). > > Yes and no: it's saved as a plain text file, but it's loaded upon > startup and the indices are kept in some kind of balanced trees. Yeah, so as with other dbs you can't edit it freely (e.g. not without shutting mpd down first). -- NULL && (void)