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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:00:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 53196

Found in version 28.0.90

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Message #529 received at 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 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 18:35:54 +0300

> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:23:57 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mwd <at> md5i.com, stefan <at> marxist.se, gregory <at> heytings.org,
>  jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> 
> 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?

For example, PuTTY lets you customize what the bell does, so perhaps
xterm and other emulators do as well?
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