Nicest phone, feature wise, like xemacs vs. notepad?
Kester Clegg
> Alternatively, is there a linux based NICE phone utility or emacs mode or
> something that could help me with dialiing and would understand caller id
> and so on (with the right modem)?
Well, there is something that does *something* along those lines, I
think from someone at Sun, in bbdb mode. Maybe you can steal the code
or something? From the bbdb manual:
M-d (bbdb-dial) If you are on a machine with the ability to play sounds,
this command will play the appropriate tones on the builtin speaker
to dial the phone number corresponding to the current line. If the
point is at the beginning of a record, dial the first phone
number. This does not dial the extension. This also does not dial
the area code if it is the same as bbdb-default-area-code, unless a
prefix argument is given.
The BBDB comes configured to play sounds on machines running
Solaris. If you are on another type of machine, you must set
bbdb-sound-player to a string containing the name of the audio file
player on your machine. You must also set bbdb-sound-files to a
vector of arguments to be passed to the program indicated by
bbdb-sound-player. bbdb-sound-player will be called with the first
element of bbdb-sound-files for the digit `0', the second for `1',
the third for `2', and so on.
bbdb-dial-local-prefix Set this to a string of digits if your phone
system requires you to dial some code to access an outside line.
bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix Set this to a string of digits if
your phone system requires you to dial some code before dialing a
long-distance number (one not in your local area code.)
Hope this helps.
k.
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Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
> Sort of like, I want an xemacs of telephones, not a "MS Notepad"
> of telephones.
This is an Emacs newgroup, for XEmacs discussion use comp.emacs.xemacs.
Stefan
David Kastrup
But the requested feature does not have anything in particular to do
with XEmacs, so I think that the group comp.emacs would be a better
choice. gnu.emacs.help, on the other hand, is rather GNU Emacs
specific.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
I heard that some recent cell phones are based on some kind of Linux
derivative, so they should be powerful enough to get a port of Emacs
running on them.
Stefan
Nathan Duffy
HeHeHe
George Jefferson
your dog but you would need to look up the meta code sequnce
to dial a local number in a 1,000 page manual :)
Kevin Rodgers
C-h a dial RET
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