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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:58:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2326x22.fsf@jane> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vamm9v8s.fsf@gnu.org>


On 2017-07-21, at 08:09, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-21  4:42 Is it only me or is your ding also silent? Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-21  6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-21  7:58   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2017-07-21  7:50 ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-07-21 10:25   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-07-21 16:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-22  8:39   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-07-22 16:48     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-22  9:17 ` tomas
2017-07-22 12:53   ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-07-22 14:23     ` tomas
2017-07-23  5:58   ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-23  8:37     ` tomas
2017-07-23 11:11       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 19:41         ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-26 20:00           ` Emanuel Berg

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