Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent?

[Marcin Borkowski]

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...

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Marcin Borkowski