[pacman-dev] [feature request] Ring terminal bell on prompt

Eric Toombs ewtoombs at uwaterloo.ca
Sun Nov 15 00:41:50 UTC 2015


Fair enough, Allan. I'll get on that when I have the time.

On 2015-10-17 09:22, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 16/10/15 14:26, Eric Toombs wrote:
>> (copied from here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41188 The attachment
>> is there too. I made it a while ago, so that's why I called 4.1.2 current.)
>>
>> I have implemented a boolean option '--bell' that when enabled, causes
>> pacman to ring the terminal bell when there is user input required. I
>> find this tremendously helpful when there are long delays between user
>> input and I am busy doing other things at the same time. Let me know
>> what you think.
>>
>> The patch is attached. It applies to the src/pacman folder of the
>> current (4.1.2) release.
>>
> It is not a feature that I would ever use, but I'll have no objections
> if it is submitted with documentation update (man page).
>
> A


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