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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #721 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: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,
 Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stefan Monnier <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, 25 Apr 2021 20:06:03 +0200

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

> Is this the scenario you have in mind?
>
>     (setq visible-bell t)
>     (setq ring-bell-function #'ignore)
>     (defun foo () (interactive) (ding))
>
>     M-x foo RET
>
> This gives no visible bell here.

Oh, I see -- I imagined that visible-bell had precedence over
ring-bell-function (without testing that).

But then I guess flipping the default on visible-bell won't have the
adverse effects on the popular Emacs distributions that I was worried
about?

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