Re: Visual bell too loud
Todd Larason <jtl(a)molehill.org> wrote:
I used to use an editor (which I would have sworn was either FSF
Emacs or
XEmacs) that did visual bell by flashing the center 9th or so of the
window. That worked well.
Eons ago, in my MSDOS port of GNU Emacs 19.19 (or so), there was a
visual bell option that did just this (divide the screen into a 3x3
matrix, and the center block could be flashed as a visual bell
indicator). The idea was that, as one's eyes are often looking near the
center of the screen, flashing the center of the screen would be more
noticeable; flashing the edges/border wasn't considered, as these would
be more likely to be in the user's peripheral vision.
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