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

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,
 Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>,
 "1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 "jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com" <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com>,
 "monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: RE: [External] : bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use
 visual bell instead
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:27:53 +0000

> > I'm personally fine with that, but I suspect it would be controversial
> > as it would leave us with no way of beeping (visual or otherwise).
> 
> You get a message in the echo area...
> 
> 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.  So you could say that there's some precedence for using
> just the echo area as the only notification mechanism (beyond apparently
> all the popular Emacs distributions doing exactly that).

`echo-bell'...

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