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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead |
Date: | Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:14:24 +0000 |
But I do have similar reservations about flashing red so prominently (given that the pressing C-g does not usually indicate an error of any sort).Why not flashing the mode line with something like:
I don't understand why flashing the mode-line is among the possible options. Calling the attention of the user to the mode-line is not TRT, it's neither where the error happened (usually at point or around point) nor where the error that happened is explained (in the echo area). It's like flashing the fringes, there's no point in doing that when an error happens.
Yes, there's an option in Doom to do this. But AFAIU Doom does that because it can't do better, namely, because there is no way to access the last error symbol in Emacs and do something with it. This (making the last error symbol and data accessible from Elisp) is included in my proposed patch.
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