On 2023-09-13, Ernie Rael wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> In a plugin I'm working on, when certain simple errors occur, I want to ring
> the bell, some kind of alert. A popup, use in some place in the plugin, is
> more
> than is needed.
>
> The closest thing I can find is
>
> call sound_playevent('bell')
>
> which isn't cross platform.
>
> What have I missed?
I use
normal \<Esc>
but I don't know how cross-platform it is. It's documented at
:help :echoerr
You don't have to use :exe. I surround it with a test for
'errorbells', e.g.,
if &errorbells
normal \<Esc> " Generate a bell
endif
echohl ErrorMsg
echomsg "Oops!"
echohl None
Regards,
Gary
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