Suggestion for simple feature - "beep" on finish.

[Robert Dewar]

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.