Dialing phone numbers from Emacs
Wrote a little Emacs function to dial a phone number from my BBDB address book using my desktop Jitsi client. So now I run C-c b [search term] then M-d to dial. Really handy.
(defun jitsi-dial (phone)
"Call a phone number PHONE using Jitsi."
(interactive (list (bbdb-current-field) current-prefix-arg))
(let ((phone-uri
(format "sip://%s@sip.internode.on.net"
(replace-regexp-in-string " " "" phone))))
(call-process "jitsi" nil nil nil phone-uri)))
(setq bbdb-dial-function 'jitsi-dial)
I've hard-coded my SIP gateway provider and preferred SIP client instead of configuring my OS to appropriately handle sip:// URLs. But that's how all good Emacs hacks should be. ;)
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@John Sullivan had his openmoko set up so he could call from emacs back in the day :)
Awesome! Was it Emacs running on the phone, or from a remote Emacs?
Emacs was running on the phone! It was talking to the phone daemon over dbus.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-05-05T02:30:11Z
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Nice! I need to find something cool to do with my old OpenMoko. Maybe a digital clock for my new office...
Ben Sturmfels at 2017-05-05T02:35:30Z
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