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

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: 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>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,
 jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell
 instead
Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 01:22:24 +0300

On 30.04.2021 10:09, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> And AFAICS this is also what most popular starter kits do. So at least 
> to me it's not clear whether it is widely used.

better-defaults is an old project which has been there for at least a 
decade in some form (and has a fair amount of stars on its archived 
repository on github: https://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults). 
It's the original "emacs starter kit".

So yes, it must be widely used.

>> But it would be interesting to try some icon-based animation in the 
>> echo area, like the red circle on VSCode's pic.
>>
> 
> You mean, displaying such a red circle before the error message in the 
> echo area?  Not sure that would be visible enough.

Something like that, with a blinking or some brief "busy" animation.

A moving reddish shape should bring enough attention, but of course 
different users have different levels of sensitivity (as the discussion 
in bug#47574 has shown). Only a practical experiment can tell.

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