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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@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 08:56:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilupydoe.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k6a9g8j.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (N. Jackson's message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:20:28 -0500")

"N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> It seems that this noisiness must be a deterrent to new users
> starting to use Emacs; it would certainly discourage some from
> sticking with it when they first use it.
>
> 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.

They can turn on visible-bell, I think.  Ringing the bell is quite an
important feature that many of us have been tuned to listen to, and
disabling that by default would be quite sad.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-12  0:56 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 [this message]
2022-01-12  3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 15:59 ` Glenn Morris

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