Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

Please wrap this is a NOBEEP variable or something so I can turn it all
off easily from make.conf.

Thanks,

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
mr_bones_@g.o


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:49:30 -0700 Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>
> wrote:
> | That's a great idea.  Along these lines, perhaps something
> | standardised for the beeping einfo's would be nice too.  I know at
> | least three packages which make use of the beeping einfo messages
> | (portage, gaim and xorg-x11) -- it'd be nice to make it a function
> | rather than the stuff that's happening now.
>
> Ok, how's this look?
>
> # Beep the specified number of times (defaults to five). If our output
> # is not a terminal, or if seq (part of coreutils) is unavailable, don't
> # beep.
> ebeep() {
>     local n
>     if [ -t 1 ] && [ -x /bin/seq ] ; then
>         for n in $(seq 1 ${1:-5}) ; do
>             echo -ne "\a"
>             sleep 0.1 &>/dev/null ; sleep 0,1 &>/dev/null
>             echo -ne "\a"
>             sleep 1
>         done
>     fi
> }
>
> I think this might not work on OSX, not sure that they have a seq
> available (although they should...).
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
> Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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>
>

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