I recently pulled the recent macvim source and recompiled and verified +sound was indicated in the version info, so yes, I do have it and have played around with it a little.
And I had also found killersheep shortly after posting. Not sure what I really expected to be implemented using sounds, but there are a lot more creative people than me, as evidenced by all of the various plugins available. Life's summary seems spot on for uses. On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 6:21:43 PM UTC-5 Yee Cheng Chin wrote: > Also, in case you are using MacVim specifically (since that was > mentioned), note that +sound support was merged into Vim, but not yet to > the latest release of MacVim. So if you use a public MacVim release you > won't have it *yet*. A new release (r175) for MacVim should be made > soon-ish in November, hopefully. > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 8:22 AM Lifepillar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2022-11-12, Richard Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I see that sound has been added to macvim!! >> > >> > What can we do with it? Are there examples? >> >> Videogames: https://github.com/vim/killersheep :-) >> >> You may add typewriter sounds on key presses: >> >> autocmd InsertCharPre * call sound_playfile("/path/to/soundfile") >> >> With sound_playevent() you may easily play system sounds (the sounds in >> /System/Library/Sounds): >> >> call sound_playevent("Sosumi") >> >> Personally, I would really like Vim to play a sound on search wrap—but >> that does not seem easy to do. >> >> If you use Vim to build, compile, or launch (asynchronous) jobs, you may >> use sounds to signal when a job is over. >> >> Another (more or less extravagant) idea: combine with timers to make >> a “Pomodoro” (a time span for focusing on something): launch a timer >> that plays a sound 20–25 minutes from the current time. >> >> Generally speaking, I think that the main use for sounds is hook on some >> autocommand or on some callback from asynchronous jobs or timers. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Life. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_mac" 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_mac" 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_mac/tkr5ja%24vqp%241%40ciao.gmane.io >> . >> > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" 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_mac" 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_mac/bf6cb9ee-74c8-413a-9978-7e5d710a1b06n%40googlegroups.com.
