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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #382 received at 1305 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>,
        Per Starbäck <per <at> starback.se>,
        1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano <at> gnu.org>,
        emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Beeping
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:12:55 -0500

> Maybe the problem is a bit different. There is currently no dedicated
> mechanism in Emacs to go to command level. Instead a lot of functions
> throws an error when they want to go to command level.

> Could we not implement something like (command-level) akin to (top-level)?

I think there's a misunderstanding here.  Emacs usually tries to make
sure commands do *something*, because it' good to return feedback.
So when they don't, they often like to beep to indicate that they
couldn't do what they were asked to do.

I dislike the beep, so I always use the visual-bell instead.  I don't
think turning the bell into nothing at all is a good option.  I'd rather
try and address the reasons that prevent the visual-bell from being
the default.


        Stefan

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