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Re: Suggestion for simple feature - "beep" on finish.
Andreas Schwab wrote:
Graham Pratt <gpratt@alphalink.com.au> writes:
So much compiling is done in the wee hours of the morning and it is nice to
just shut your eyes for a while when the messages are scrolling past. Trouble
is, you have to take a peek every now and then to see if it is finished. A
very simple feature I think would be good is when compiling is finished the
pc speaker could give a beep, prompting you to come back to "userland" ;-)
PROMPT_COMMAND=$'echo -ne \'\\a\''
Andreas.
That's something you can trivially program using an appropriate command
file, so I don't see that it is something you would put into gcc itself.