Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

John--

I think I recreated this and it implies two things:

1. You did not install sox (earlier this was recommended as a solution) 
2. You are not using the recommended swiftmac auditory icon settings

I think if you "brew install sox" it will fix your problem, or if you use the 
recommended swiftmac audio icon play it will fix your problem as well.

But, in investigating this I think I found a bug in swiftmac audio icon 
playback, so that was a nice bonus! 

I would first just "brew install sox" and see if that gets it working. 

> On Feb 1, 2024, at 09:35, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> OK, after finding the actual emacs binary and doing -nw, I actually
> get some warning about my .emacs file and so I ran with --debug-init
> and got the following:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>  make-process(:name nil :buffer nil)
>    apply(make-process (:name nil :buffer nil))
>      start-process(nil nil nil "play-sample" "button")
>   emacspeak-play-auditory-icon(button)
>     emacspeak-auditory-icon(button)
>  emacspeak-sounds-select-theme("/Users/covici/emacspeak/sounds/ogg-chimes/")
>    emacspeak()
>      (let ((file-name-handler-alist nil)
>  (load-source-file-function nil)) (load "emacspeak-loaddefs")
>  (emacspeak))
>    (if noninteractive nil (let ((file-name-handler-alist nil)
>  (load-source-file-function nil)) (load "emacspeak-loaddefs")
>  (emacspeak)))
>    eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*-856885> nil
>  "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil t)  ; Reading
>  at buffer position 2150
>    
> load-with-code-conversion("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"
>  "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil)
>    load("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil t)
>      load-file("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/covici/.emacs" nil
>  t)  ; Reading at buffer position 3837
>    load-with-code-conversion("/Users/covici/.emacs"
>  "/Users/covici/.emacs" t t)
>    load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
>      startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
>  0x1569ad0cc53c31>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
>  -0x1f3c61addc0b5af5>) t)
>    command-line()
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:04:51 -0500,
> Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>> 
>> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>> Also, if mplayer ends up not being the issue, can you clarify what you 
>> mean by “some sort of fatal error”? What sort? :-) Also, any tracebacks?
>> 
>>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 13:40, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your quick response.
>>> 
>>> I did make clean, make confiig and make whenever I changed the
>>> emacspeak I was using.  I did tryy to load emacspeak using esc-x
>>> load-file, but I got some kind of fatal error when trying to do that.
>>> Since this is a mac, would I need mplayer and sox?
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:36:08 -0500,
>>> Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>> Hi John,
>>>> There could be many reasons for this, so I’m going to throw a whole 
>>>> bunch of steps at you to see which one works, haha.
>>>> First, have you tried running `make clean` and `make` when you either go 
>>>> back to a release or to the git HEAD?
>>>> Also, do you have Emacspeak dependencies, notably mplayer and sox 
>>>> installed?
>>>> If you do all this, we’ll need to figure out what happens when you load 
>>>> Emacspeak. I’m not sure of the best way to do this given your 
>>>> configuration, but maybe try the emacs -Q that you did before, and do 
>>>> M-: (load-file “~/src/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”) or whatever 
>>>> your emacspeak path is, and see if you can read the buffer contents with 
>>>> the errors, maybe from th e*Messages* buffer.
>>>> Hope this gives you a few next steps to debug the issue!
>>>> 
>>>>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 12:28, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
>>>>> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi everyone. So, I think this started after upgrading to emacs 29.1.
>>>>> What happens is that after emacspeak is loaded emacs does not work --
>>>>> escape followed by x types x in the buffer.  c-x followed by b does
>>>>> nothing at all.  Many other things don't seem to work as they should.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, I started on the hunt.  I am using the railway casc out of
>>>>> homebrew, but the same thing happens with the original emacs macport.
>>>>> So, the first thing I did was from the terrminal typed
>>>>> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-29.1-mac-10.0/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacx
>>>>> -q  to see if it was my settings.  Sure enough, emacs was functioning,
>>>>> I knew this because vo read  some things and I could actually hear m-x
>>>>> when I typed esc-x .  So, I then fooled around with my .emacs file and
>>>>> sure enough, the load of emacspeak was the problem.  I was using
>>>>> emacspeak from git and I went back to emacs 59, but no joy.  I am
>>>>> stumped after that, so any suggestions as to how to debug further
>>>>> would be appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks all.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>>>>> How do
>>>>> you spend it?
>>>>> 
>>>>>       John Covici wb2una
>>>>>       covici AT ccs.covici.com
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>>> How do
>>> you spend it?
>>> 
>>>        John Covici wb2una
>>>        covici AT ccs.covici.com
>> 
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> 
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
> 
>         John Covici wb2una
>         covici AT ccs.covici.com
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