From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent? Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:58:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2326x22.fsf@jane> References: <87lgni7643.fsf@jane> <83vamm9v8s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500623952 18334 195.159.176.226 (21 Jul 2017 07:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:59:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 09:59:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dYSq1-0004SB-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:59:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYSq7-0004UT-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48245) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYSpi-0004Tl-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYSph-000199-TX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:60638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYSpc-00011b-5L; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA77E66AB; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:58:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Z6s6ZO2CNyPB; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:58:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [83.13.149.242]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C03B3E6462; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:58:34 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <83vamm9v8s.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113802 Archived-At: On 2017-07-21, at 08:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Marcin Borkowski >> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:42:52 +0200 >> >> as in the subject. I defined >> >> (defun system-beep () >> (call-process "beep")) >> >> which beeps, but M-: (ding) does not produce any sound here. > > It does here. > >> I have fresh Emacs compiled from sources on fresh Arch GNU/Linux. > > Could be some system-level setting, unrelated to Emacs, perhaps? I doubt it; the command line "beep" program does indeed beep. Also, I checked with emacs -Q, just to be sure. Still silence. >> Is it because ring-bell-function is nil? > > No, ring-bell-function is for when you want to customize how to rin > the bell, then you need to write a function to do that and bind > ring-bell-function to it. By default, ring-bell-function always was > nil, because Emacs is using its own code to beep. That's what I would think, but I wanted to make sure. >> In the old days, C-g or M-: (ding) used to beep! > > It still does here. Strange... -- Marcin Borkowski