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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #472 received at 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell
 instead
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:41:01 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

>> I poked around, and it's "Settings -> Sound -> System Sounds" in Gnome
>> Shell that I had switched to a volume of zero.
>
> Does that have an option to use a visual bell instead?

Nope.  But you can choose between a range of different beeps.

> What is less clear to me is why Emacs should mimic the behavior of
> terminal emulators of 1980s era terminals that mimicked 1970s era
> terminals.  :-)

It probably shouldn't, but finding the least annoying change here is
unexpectedly non-trivial.

The visual-bell on Macos is pretty, but really intrusive.  If we want to
make the visual bell the default, we should perhaps change that first.  

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