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 #73 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com,
        bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1305: Please disable the audible bell by default, to avoid discouraging newbies in crowded offices and elsewhere
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:52:03 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 1305 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com>,  bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:54:02 -0500
> 
> > The problem is, without the beep, the screen sometimes does not change
> > at all.  And that is BAD, from the HE point of view, at least IMO.
> 
> That sounds like a bug to me.  In which circumstances does the
> visible-bell fail to work?

I didn't mean visible-bell fails to work, I meant if we abolish any
visual or audible signs.  The OP asked as his 1st choice to disable
the beep, not replace it with visible-bell.
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