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bug#53196: 28.0.90; Default Emacs is too noisy
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
bug#53196: 28.0.90; Default Emacs is too noisy |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:56:33 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"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.