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

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Message #499 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: 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mwd <at> md5i.com, stefan <at> marxist.se,
 jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, gregory <at> heytings.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell
 instead
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:06:31 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:36:55 +0200
> Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,
>  Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> 
> As somebody else noted earlier, if you have visible-bell on, but use
> "-nw", that's the only notification you get -- there's no visible bell
> on the console.

Is that really true?  I see in the code that we do support
visible-bell on TTY frames if terminfo says the terminal is capable of
doing that, see term.c:tty_ring_bell.

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