I have been wondering if it would help if Vim could play a sound. Think
of a gentle "ping" to indicate the cursor can't move there, or a
"tadaa" when a background build finishes successfully. At least I have
had times where I didn't notice something that was going on, because I
was looking in the wrong place. Currently there only is the annoying
beep (which I usually have disabled).
I wonder how useful this would be. It's probably a matter of taste
anyway. And it only works locally (unless there is an xterm sequence to
play a sound?).
And I wonder if it can be implemented in a way it's portable. There are
some audio libraries floating around, but I don't expect the "-dev"
version to be installed on most systems. Perhaps MS-Windows has
something that's always available?
Another way would be to use a system command (in the background), but
that could have some latency.
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