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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #397 received at 1305 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
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: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:25:59 +0100

2009/11/27 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> As an example of what I mean look at what windmove-left does when
>> there is no window to the left. It then raises an error.
>> If debug-on-error is true I then get a chance to debug my behaviour. I
>> am not sure that makes sense.
>
> That's a problem between windmove and debug-ignored-errors.
> BTW, I'd welcome a patch that introduces a new error `user-error' and
> then changes calls to `error' where the error message is in
> debug-ignored-errors to signal `user-error' instead.


You mean that debug-ignored-errors should just be '(user-error)?

Isn't there still a problem with condition-case then? Or perhaps it
could be tamed to pass on user-error?


>> The behaviour is different, but I think it should be similar to what
>> scroll-down/up does when it reaches the border. I think there should
>> be a unified behaviour. Making the visual bell default seems good, but
>> why not implement it as `command-level'?
>
> That's already what "an error that's in debug-ignored-errors" does.
>
>
>        Stefan
>

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