From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to quiet down the beep Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:48:41 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: <87eixdj0b5.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236181752 14620 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2009 15:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:49:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 16:50:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LetMW-00055L-TC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:50:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LetLB-0001RJ-Ky for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LetKp-0001R9-71 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LetKo-0001QT-I8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60073 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LetKo-0001QN-FI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48346 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LetKn-0008WK-Tj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LetKl-0004Fu-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:48:35 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:48:35 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:48:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NbPUc6sXGHYB0+t/hJP+HJ0VYpU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62584 Archived-At: m.haebich@gmx.de (Mathias Häbich) writes: > Hello, > > I have the following in my .emacs: > > (setq ring-bell-function (lambda () (message "*beep*"))) > > It makes Emacs show "*beep*" in the minibuffer instead of beeping. That is really great... thanks. The frame flashing is almost as aggravating as beeping. This little function is just what the doctor ordered.