set visible-bell ignored

set visible-bell ignored

[J Krugman]

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
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Re: set visible-bell ignored

[FCC]

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...

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Re: set visible-bell ignored

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: J Krugman <jkrugman345@yahbitoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:46:48 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> Does anyone know why Emacs would disregard the visible-bell setting,
> even when the terminal is perfectly capable of being silent?

Is that in "emacs -nw", i.e. in a non-windowed session, or in a
windowed session (e.g., on X or on MS-Windows)?

If the former, make sure your terminal's "vb" capability (in
termcap/terminfo database) is defined correctly, and that
ring-bell-function's value is nil.