GNU bug report logs - #1305
All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #757 received at 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>, 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>, jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell
 instead
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 03:08:30 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> So we'd change the default of the former to be a new visible bell
> function (for instance something that works the same as the visible bell
> on GNU/Linux systems, but across all systems (or one of the new proposed
> visible bell functions)), and deprecate `visible-bell'.  I think that
> should be a pretty un-annoying way forward.

Fully agreed; it's an improvement over my proposal.

This is currently handled in different ways on different platforms, so I
we might want to clean that up a bit while we're at it.

The main thing remaining, besides writing the actual patch, is to decide
what the visual bell should look like.  I am currently running with
Gregory's patch for testing; it would useful if others carried out
similar experiments with one or more variations mentioned in this thread
and reported back.

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