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All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>, 1305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:21:18 +0200

Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> writes:

> Stefan M means (IIUC) that, instead of introducing a new variable to
> clean up the current situation, it is better to reuse the already
> existing ring-bell-function variable, to give it some new possible
> values, and at the same time to deprecate the visible-bell variable.

Sure, that makes sense, I think.  (Since `ring-bell-function' has
precedence over `visible-bell'.)

So we'd change the default of the former to be a new visible bell
function (for instance something that works the same as the visible bell
on GNU/Linux systems, but across all systems (or one of the new proposed
visible bell functions)), and deprecate `visible-bell'.  I think that
should be a pretty un-annoying way forward.

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