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Per Abrahamsen writes:
>
>>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
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>>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
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>luis> (Hmmm...I think we need an audio equivalent to smiley.el; standard
>luis> earcons would be: drum roll, snicker, laugh, etc. :-)
>
>Lars> :-)
>
>SLB> I've found a snicker, laugh, and some other related sound effects,
>SLB> including an **Evil Laugh** suitable for announcement of new features
>SLB> :-), but no drum roll, and there's got to be a drum roll ...
>
>It should be really simple to implement, just add a new entry to
>`gnus-button-alist' for each sound effect, and write a function to
>play the sound.  By default it could just cat a file into /dev/audio.
>
>Then, **Evil Laugh** would become a button that would play the sound
>when pushed. 

  Nah... no interaction from the user should be required. :)  How about
hooking into the redisplay hooks like lazy-lock does?  When a region is
exposed via window-resizing or scrolling, etc, and new earcons are exposed,
it plays the sound.

-Bill P.