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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Is this the scenario you have in mind?
>
>     (setq visible-bell t)
>     (setq ring-bell-function #'ignore)
>     (defun foo () (interactive) (ding))
>
>     M-x foo RET
>
> This gives no visible bell here.

Oh, I see -- I imagined that visible-bell had precedence over
ring-bell-function (without testing that).

But then I guess flipping the default on visible-bell won't have the
adverse effects on the popular Emacs distributions that I was worried
about?

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