"Kevin Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, >>> C-g. Also, it works by causing something almost indistiguishable from >>> an error. >> >> Of course we could distinguish them. I do think it's important to do >> something when execution is interrupted by C-g so the user can tell the >> difference between normal and abnormal termination. But I can see >> the point >> in making this feedback different than the one corresponding to an error. > > Don't forget, one can always set the variable visible-bell to replace > the ding with a visible flashing in Emacs. But this replaces the ding > in all situations with the visible flashing, which the user might not > want.
I have a friend that runs Emacs on Mac OS X with visible-bell set to t. On Windows, it flashes the title bar of the frame. Okay. On GNU/Linux, it flashes the minibuffer and the first line in the buffer. Okay. On OS X, it is really irritating: the _whole_ screen flashes (not only the Emacs frame), like the screen is going to explode. When one works in a little darker environment, it really blinds the user. The documentation of visible-bell says `Non-nil means try to flash the frame to represent a bell.' The frame, not the whole screen. It would be great if this could be changed to be more like on other OS. -- Christian Schlauer _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
