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Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent?
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent? |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:41:58 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 |
On 2017-07-23, at 13:11, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
>>> > or something similar. That wouldn't explain
>>> > that "beep" actually (uh) beeps (did I say
>>> > that it was a long shot?), but
>>> > worth trying.
>>> Hi Tomás,
>>> I'm *so* much impressed - you nailed it!
>>> Now my Emacs is wonderfully talkative, erm,
>>> beepative;-). Thanks!!!
>>> Best,
>>
>> .-)
>
> All this enthusiasm puzzles me. Why would one
> ever want the computer to BEEP?
Because sometimes I am away from it and I want to be notified that
something happened? Y'know, some of us do not stare at the screen all
day long;-P.
> When I did configuration on system wide-scale,
> instead of just brining in all the config files
> from remote systems, the first thing I ever did
> was to disable every single sound the computer
> would ever think of making. The second thing
> I did was to disable the cursor blink, which
> I consider visual noise, everywhere - quite
> a few places, actually, even if you use Emacs
> 23 if not 24/7. The third thing I did was put
> the background image to pamela.bmp ha ha... eheh.
>
> No, sound. Why?
I like sound. Music. Birds. Singing. My child babbling. My computer
beeping.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
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