GNU bug report logs - #1305
All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #433 received at 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: gregory <at> heytings.org, 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se,
 jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell
 instead
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 17:05:17 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>,
>   jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com,  1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:39:04 +0200
> 
> > It is my understanding that Emacs is unusual in using the system bell
> > though.  It would be better to avoid it completely, even when that
> > setting is on.
> 
> I turned the volume up, and saying "lTAB" in the shell (in a Console
> window) then beeped audibly.  So the default here is to make sounds.
> And I just checked the same on my Apple laptop -- the shell there also
> beeps a lot.

That is my experience as well: programs make sounds nowadays all the
time, and one needs to customize the system to make them shut up.

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