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

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 13:48:31 -0500

>> 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.

Oh, that would be a clear "no", indeed.  Of course we'd replace it with
the visible-bell (and I suspect that OP also intended it that way).


        Stefan
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