Re: Status of sound support in Vim

Lifepillar wrote:

> What is the status of +sound in Vim? In particular, is anyone working on
> adding support for macOS?
>
> The manual has examples mentioning Ubuntu, so I infer that Ubuntu should
> be supported, but I cannot get any sound. I have tried with .wav, .oga
> and .ogg files, so I don't think it's a format issue. Audio is working
> in my platform, as I can play sound files with ffplay and other tools
> from the command line. Using Vim 8.1.2269 with +sound. Any idea how to
> troubleshoot that?

Sound works for me on Xubuntu-18.04.
I don't really use it, it works fine with e.g. the demo game:
https://github.com/vim/killersheep

For macOs, I see that ":help todo" has this item:

=== BEGIN QUOTE :help todo ===
Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
=== END QUOTE ===

Regards
Dominique

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