GNU bug report logs - #21652
bell chars

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Baker <tombaker17 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 23:11:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 21652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tombaker17 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#21652: bell chars
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 17:56:55 +0300
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 07:23:29 -0700
> Cc: 21652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Tom Baker <tombaker17 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I wrote this because I have a history of setting one command going,
> > then going off to do something else, and then remembering an hour
> > later "is that command done yet?" and looking to see that it finished
> > a half hour before.
> 
> This is a valid use case.

There's something I don't think I understand in this use case: if the
same command was run from a shell prompt outside Emacs, would the
shell beep?  Or is the intent to make the Emacs shell mode do
something a shell doesn't?




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