I just discovered the wonderful party man page on Jan Wolter's web site:

     http://unixpapa.com/party-man.html

Long irritated by the glut of long-forgotten in-jokes in the global party
/noises list and inspired by knowledge of the makenoise option, I tried
makeing my own /noise.

However, my attempted ":set makenoise=/u/p/a/papa/share/party/newnoise" 
was mercilessly rejected with the proclamation, "party error: makenoise 
is not a user settable option".

If the option were user-settable, it looks like anyone who cared to make 
the effort could define their own set of /noises in place of the ancient 
global list. Can this be changed?

4 responses total.

aswell as letting users make new noises, i think clearing out all the old
noises (unless current users are attahced to any) would be a good idea (and
maybe periodic housekeeping of the noise list ). The party channels list could
do with the same treatment.

If party makes an old noise does anyone hear it

The 90s references in party noises are an odd experience...

resp:2 Yes, if you use "-n".

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