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

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Message #826 received at 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
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: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 23:19:20 +0000

>> 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".
>

Amusingly, it's the only "better default" that isn't described in the 
README, and against which there's a open issue: 
https://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults/issues/27 .

>
> 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.
>

Moving???  Why do you think this would be better than simply blinking the 
echo area?

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