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bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 21:17:08 +0000


I checked on macOS, and the only apps (at least, the only apps among the ones I use) that repeatedly beep are the terminal and Emacs. Other apps only beep when you do something "wrong", that is, when they cannot do what you want (for example when you ask the program to paste something when there is nothing to paste), or when they open an important dialog. The terminal also beeps when it cannot do what you want (for example when you press TAB and it cannot complete the current input). In comparison, Emacs beeps a lot.

Really? I find that, in general, Emacs only beeps when it cannot do what I want (for example, C-n at EOB) or I cancel an operation (C-g or ESC ESC ESC). Under what other circumstances are you encountering beeping?


For example, every time you press C-g, and every time you search for something that it cannot find. When you press C-g Emacs does what you want, so why beep? When you search for something that isn't there you already see that it isn't there, so why beep?





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