Re: asynchronously sound alert

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:41:35 -0500 Rodrigo Lazo wrote:

> I'm using jabber.el for about two months and I'm very happy with
> it. It's awesome! But I found something that bugs me. I use sound
> alerts and they work perfectly except that my whole emacs is frozen
> when they occur. Is there any way to make them asynchronously?

AFAIK that's an Emacs misfeature.  You can try to replace the
function `play-sound-file' by some function that calls
(asynchronously) an external process to play the sound.

David

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