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bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:34:10 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> No, that's not the intent. The intent is to make the visible bell the
>> default. To turn it off, you turn off visible-bell, which makes Emacs
>> beep again, and then turn off the speakers.
>
> Indeed. A good reason to use visible-bell by default is that we have no
> guarantee that the bell can actually be heard (e.g. I usually turn it
> off because I usually consider that a computer should be as close to
> silent as possible, except when I specifically ask otherwise (.e.g
> listing to music or whatching a video)).
>
> The other reason is that the beep can annoy other people than the user,
> whereas the visible-bell is very unlikely to annoy other people than the
> user herself.
But there has been some messages telling that having it on by default
is good for visually impaired people.
- Processed: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, (continued)
- Processed: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Emacs bug Tracking System, 2008/11/08
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Drew Adams, 2008/11/08
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Jason Spiro, 2008/11/08
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/09
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Drew Adams, 2008/11/09
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/09
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/09
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Drew Adams, 2008/11/10
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should usevisual bellinstead, Drew Adams, 2008/11/11
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead,
Lennart Borgman <=
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/10
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/10
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Jason A. Spiro, 2008/11/11
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/11/10
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Jason Spiro, 2008/11/11
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/11/11
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead, Jason Spiro, 2008/11/13
bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Xavier Maillard, 2008/11/10