From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Barzilay Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5711: 23.1; Customizing the bell Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:49 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268411111 21706 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2010 16:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:25:11 +0000 (UTC) To: 5711@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 12 17:25:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq7fc-0008Vz-3V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nq7fb-0005g5-HZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nq7fD-0005VT-93 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; 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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nq7CP-0000dU-Qz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43551 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nq7CO-0000cY-0D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq7CM-0004dR-In for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from winooski.ccs.neu.edu ([129.10.115.117]:55457 helo=barzilay.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq7CM-0004dH-GU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eli by barzilay.org with local (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq7CL-0004fD-7X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:49 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:17:54 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:18:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35534 Archived-At: I'd like for my Emacs to sometimes ring the bell as usual, sometimes flash the screen, and sometimes play a sound. Currently, I can change it to do one of these things in the usual way, but I cannot write code that determines what to do dynamically. What's missing is a primitive function to the "real" beep. Something that would allow me to do this: (setq ring-bell-function (lambda () (if (foo) (call-process "aplay" nil 0 nil "foo.wav") (let ((visible-bell (bar))) (real-ding))))) (I could do this in a bad way, by installing some hook that will set `ring-bell-function' and `visible-bell' -- for example in an idle timer, but the above would be much more convenient.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!