From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent? Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:09:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83vamm9v8s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgni7643.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500617423 11228 195.159.176.226 (21 Jul 2017 06:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:10:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 08:10:19 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 1dYR8i-0002ZJ-7m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYR8n-0007x0-RQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 02:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60145) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYR84-0007rX-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 02:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYR7z-00083X-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 02:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41167) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYR7z-00083S-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 02:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1686 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dYR7z-00041X-1t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 02:09:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgni7643.fsf@jane> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:42:52 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:113800 Archived-At: > 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? > 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. > In the old days, C-g or M-: (ding) used to beep! It still does here.