Re: Visual bell

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 09:06, Michele Campeotto wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > beeping (this is almost always going to be true - the only thing I can
> > think of that beeps is vi anyway, and it will beep when you type in
> > it...).
> 
>    the terminal beeps too, but in the same circunstances ;)

But you might well have a "make" going in a window that's in your
background, set to beep when complete, or on error, etc.  So in a number
of useful cases, the bell could be coming from something other than the
currently focussed window.

-Bill

> -- 
>    Michele - micampe micampe it
> 
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> drug regimen to keep my mind... limber.
>    -- The Dude, "The Big Lebowski"
>