bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> Stefan M means (IIUC) that, instead of introducing a new variable to
> clean up the current situation, it is better to reuse the already
> existing ring-bell-function variable, to give it some new possible
> values, and at the same time to deprecate the visible-bell variable.

Sure, that makes sense, I think.  (Since `ring-bell-function' has
precedence over `visible-bell'.)

So we'd change the default of the former to be a new visible bell
function (for instance something that works the same as the visible bell
on GNU/Linux systems, but across all systems (or one of the new proposed
visible bell functions)), and deprecate `visible-bell'.  I think that
should be a pretty un-annoying way forward.

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