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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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Message #736 received at 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.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,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell
 instead
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:33:21 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

>        A  delay  in  milliseconds  may appear anywhere in a string capability,
>        enclosed in $<..> brackets, as in el=\EK$<5>,  and  padding  characters
>        are supplied by tputs(3X) to provide this delay.

So tputs(3), which Emacs calls, is supposed to translate that sequence
into a number of padding characters, which should provide a delay...
and that doesn't seem to work on this Debian/bullseye laptop.

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