Subject: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:04:03 +0300

On 19.04.2021 15:37, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> ---
> Prelude and Spacemacs:
> 
>    (setq ring-bell-function 'ignore)
> ---
> 
> If I understand correctly, this doesn't set `visible-bell', but only
> uses the default value (which is nil).  So changing the default will
> indeed affect these users (until the distributions update themselves to
> set visible-bell to nil).

Their uses are pretty accustomed to change, though, and to having the 
distributions maintainers resolve this kind of issues.