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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #517 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 18:23:57 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se,  mwd <at> md5i.com,  gregory <at> heytings.org,
>   1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:11:21 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I tried in both Console and xterm on this Debian/bullseye system, and
> `C-g' doesn't do anything visible to me with `visible-bell' switched
> on...

If you put a breakpoint inside tty_ring_bell, do you see that
tty->TS_visible_bell is non-NULL or not?  If it's non-NULL, perhaps
the terminal emulator has that disabled somehow?

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