Re: another question about controlling the d..n beep!

[Colin S. Miller]

aspirinjunky wrote:
> hi,
<snip!>
> Is there a way to fine tune the conditions that cause emacs to beep?
> I'd like to kill the sounds for trivial errors (like during searching
> and deleting) without actually disabling the bell (with visible-bell),
> because there are certain times when I'd like the bell to actually
> ring (for instance, when my alarm clock goes off.)
>
<snip!>
> thanks in advance,
>
> d...

D,
As an off-the-wall suggestion, you could try putting a defadvice on (beep)
[ or (ding) ].

The defadvice would call (split-string (with-output-to-string (backtrace)) 
'"\012")
This gives a list of strings, each element of which is a function in the
caller backtrace that caused the beep. With a little scripting,
it should be possible to determine whether you want a enable visual
or audible bell for this invocation.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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