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: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:41:58 +0200 Message-ID: <871sp33rzt.fsf@jane> References: <87lgni7643.fsf@jane> <20170722091734.GC31177@tuxteam.de> <87o9sblmno.fsf@jane> <20170723083705.GB8000@tuxteam.de> <86tw235rwx.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501098165 21960 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 19:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:42:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 21:42:41 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 1daSCe-0005Uf-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daSCk-0003Mi-En for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daSCF-0003MO-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daSC9-0008ME-Px for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:34820) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daSC9-0008Lg-J9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061CDE67E6; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:42:05 +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 dOEltDvltMSv; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:42:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 31F7DE677E; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:42:02 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <86tw235rwx.fsf@zoho.com> 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:113880 Archived-At: On 2017-07-23, at 13:11, Emanuel Berg wrote: >>> > or something similar. That wouldn't explain >>> > that "beep" actually (uh) beeps (did I say >>> > that it was a long shot?), but >>> > worth trying. >>> Hi Tom=C3=A1s, >>> I'm *so* much impressed - you nailed it! >>> Now my Emacs is wonderfully talkative, erm, >>> beepative;-). Thanks!!! >>> Best, >> >> .-) > > All this enthusiasm puzzles me. Why would one > ever want the computer to BEEP? Because sometimes I am away from it and I want to be notified that something happened? Y'know, some of us do not stare at the screen all day long;-P. > When I did configuration on system wide-scale, > instead of just brining in all the config files > from remote systems, the first thing I ever did > was to disable every single sound the computer > would ever think of making. The second thing > I did was to disable the cursor blink, which > I consider visual noise, everywhere - quite > a few places, actually, even if you use Emacs > 23 if not 24/7. The third thing I did was put > the background image to pamela.bmp ha ha... eheh. > > No, sound. Why? I like sound. Music. Birds. Singing. My child babbling. My computer beeping. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski