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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>,
        jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual	bellinstead
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:07:29 -0500

> No, that's not the intent.  The intent is to make the visible bell the
> default.  To turn it off, you turn off visible-bell, which makes Emacs
> beep again, and then turn off the speakers.

Indeed.  A good reason to use visible-bell by default is that we have no
guarantee that the bell can actually be heard (e.g. I usually turn it
off because I usually consider that a computer should be as close to
silent as possible, except when I specifically ask otherwise (.e.g
listing to music or whatching a video)).

The other reason is that the beep can annoy other people than the user,
whereas the visible-bell is very unlikely to annoy other people than the
user herself.


        Stefan

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