Emacspeak discussion list

["T.V Raman" <raman AT google.com>]

you're still in the past, study the code in emacspeak-sounds.el in its
entirety. And no, in general, I will make no attempt to paper over
problems created by users who dont follow setup instructions, that is
not worth the effort.



Robert Melton writes:
 > TV--
 > 
 > Oh, I am learning a ton for sure.  Yes, you are correct, it is the error 
 > being 
 > emitted via the initialization process causing emacspeak to be 
 > incompletely 
 > loaded.
 > 
 > I have played around with inserting my own fake errors to confirm 
 > behavior. 
 > 
 > Since missing a play program is not ideal, but also not critical, should 
 > it be 
 > changed from an error to w warn?  As it will break the initialization if 
 > it hits 
 > an error line during loading. 
 > 
 > > On Feb 6, 2024, at 10:10, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
 > > 
 > > thanks.
 > > 
 > > 1. Reason I was surprized to hear emacspeak crashed because of play
 > >   was that just icons cant cause it to crash.
 > > 2. What caused the crash was the transitional (pulse->pipewire) check
 > >   for ogg vs wav file themes that raised an error if one picked an
 > >   audio backend that did not support ogg
 > > 3. That error triggered at the launch of emacspeak -- which means
 > >   emacspeak startup never completed.
 > > 
 > >   Above mostly to help your debugging life easier  in the future
 > > --
 > 
 > --
 > Robert "robertmeta" Melton
 > lists AT robertmelton.com

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