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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mwd <at> md5i.com, stefan <at> marxist.se, jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:13:17 +0300

> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:02:35 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>, jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com,
>  1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,
>  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> 
> > I think, perhaps, introducing a new visible bell (across all significant 
> > system), that's considerably less intrusive than the ones we have today 
> > on GNU/Linux and Macos, might be an option.  And then defaulting to 
> > using that.
> >
> > Gregory suggested blinking the cursor in a different colour -- perhaps?
> >
> 
> I attach a POC of what I have in mind.

If this is being proposed as the default setting, then we should have
a different default for TTY frames, because AFAIR cursor color cannot
be changed there, right?

>   (sit-for 0.5)

I think half a second is too long, a bell should be much shorter, like
0.1 sec or something.

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