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bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:33:35 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Yes, it's perhaps a bit unfortunate that "visible-bell" is nil in this
>> case, but note that with visible-bell t and ring-bell-function ignore you
>> also do not have what you could expect. The semantics of visible-bell and
>> ring-bell-function are a bit unclear, but they cannot be fixed anymore
>> without introducing backward incompatible changes.
>
> I think this is a bit of a mess, indeed.
>
> I would be in favour of fixing this by adding one or more new variables
> with reasonable semantics. For example, why not have a variable called
> `alarm-bell' with these valid values:
>
> - a function call this function
> - `visual' Use a visual bell
> - t Ring the bell
> - nil Do nothing
Agreed, except I suggest to use slightly different names: `visual` becomes
`ring-bell-visual`, `t` becomes `ring-bell-beep`, `nil` becomes `ignore` and
`alarm-bell` becomes `ring-bell-function`.
Stefan
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, (continued)
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/20
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Monnier, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/04/25
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Monnier, 2021/04/25
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/04/26
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/27
- bug#1305: [External] : bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Drew Adams, 2021/04/27
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/04/27
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/28
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/28