Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-10-03 Thread Christian Schlauer
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:53:23 +0200, Christian Schlauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] This patch, dated from the end of May, has still not been applied to the trunk -- why not? I don't apply changes about matter of taste issues only by my

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-09-30 Thread YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:53:23 +0200, Christian Schlauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That is caused by `FlashMenuBar' calls in XTflash, and it used to flash only the menu bar part as its name stands for on Mac OS 9. I also think the current behavior on Mac OS X is too much. The following

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-27 Thread YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:51:16 +0200, Christian Schlauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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.

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-26 Thread Christian Schlauer
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

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Kim F. Storm
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, C-g. That's a relic from ASCII and TTY days. These days it really doesn't make sense on non-TTY platforms -- it's more like a bad joke. Also, it works by causing something

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
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

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Kevin Gallagher
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:37 AM Subject: Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general) 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

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-23 Thread Kim F. Storm
David Reitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does Emacs ring the bell upon user-initiated abort actions? Because C-g signals a quit, and that calls bitch_at_user -- which I agree is bogus ... there's no need to bitch at anyone for cancelling a command. I'm not sure what the best way to fix

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-23 Thread David Reitter
On 23 May 2005, at 11:04, Kim F. Storm wrote: I'm not sure what the best way to fix this, as some users may like to be bitched at :-) Doubt that there would be many. And if so, you can't please everybody - at least one should please the majority and only bitch when there's something to