From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
Cc: 53196@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53196: 28.0.90; Default Emacs is too noisy
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:23:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rvl7i3h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k6a9g8j.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:20:28 -0500
>
> I ran emacs -Q today (to confirm a bug) and I was driven to
> distraction by all the beeping. [My Emacs is mercifully silent,
> presumably(?) because I have `visible-bell' turned on, so I'm not
> used to all the noise.] On this system the beep sounds like a drop
> of water falling into a pool and it is very loud (even though I keep
> my volume level set quite low). Just a few minutes in emacs -Q was a
> torture.
What caused the beeps? It isn't supposed to be too frequent, unless
you bump into errors all the time.
> One simple improvement would be to not sound a beep when the user
> presses `C-g'. That would reduce the amount of noise very greatly.
C-g is a kind of interrupt, ringing the bell is justified when the
user interrupts whatever Emacs is doing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-12 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-11 20:20 bug#53196: 28.0.90; Default Emacs is too noisy N. Jackson
2022-01-12 0:56 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-12 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-12 15:59 ` Glenn Morris
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