From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FCC Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set visible-bell ignored Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:00:14 +0100 Organization: UPC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104926632 24737 80.91.229.6 (5 Jan 2005 12:03:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 13:03:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cm9t9-0001EI-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:03:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmA4O-0002MR-Su for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:15:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.cesca.es!news.upc.es!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adca05.upc.es Original-X-Trace: defalla.upc.es 1104926401 20546 147.83.51.18 (5 Jan 2005 12:00:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmngr@upc.es Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:00:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127689 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23157 J Krugman articulated on 01/05/05 05:46: >Despite the fact that I have > > (setq-default visible-bell t) > >in my Emacs init file, and that C-h v visible-bell confirms that >it is indeed t, my Emacs still beeps at every opportunity it gets. >It's driving me insane. My zsh, on the other hand, responds as >desired to "setopt no_beep". Ba-a-ad Emacs! > >Does anyone know why Emacs would disregard the visible-bell setting, >even when the terminal is perfectly capable of being silent? > >TIA, > >jill > > Again, I am no expert, but a user trying to learn as much as possible, but it looks like you need to set the current value of visible-bell to t, not its default value, i.e. (setq visible-bell t) Also, since: ring-bell-function's value is nil Non-nil means call this function to ring the bell. The function should accept no arguments. Defined in `C source code'. may be you also need (setq ring-bell-function nil) Hope this helps... -- FCC. === War springs from unseen and generally insignificant causes. -Anonymous