Re: Patch to make Emacs.app for OSX visible bell like Carbon Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> Patch attached to nsterm.m (1.67) to make the visible bell
>>>> behaviour nicer and like Carbon emacs. I also neatened it to stop
>>>> the flashing across the fringe/scrollbar.
>>> It flashes fringes/scrollbars that separate vertically-split
>>> windows (C-x 3).
>> And it looks so strange when there's a header line at the top (e.g.,
>> M-x info RET).
> Another strange-looking case is when there are marginal areas (e.g.,
> M-: (set-window-margins nil 5 5) RET) with fringes-outside-margins
> nil, which is the default.

I wonder about one thing: why isn't the visible bell implemented in the
same way for all GUIs?  Or even why it's in the GUI-specific part of the
code rather than in the generic part of it?


        Stefan