Ring the bell

Author

Siye Liu

Contents

• Ring the bell

  • 1 What

  • 2 Why

  • 3 How

1 What

Find a way to stop emacs beep if there is any operation error.

2 Why

Every time when you type something which is not allowed or wrong, emacs will beep to warning you. However, C-g is also included which is very annoying. So it is better to find a way to stop it.

3 How

Hit C-h a to search any command / function related to this beep, nothing found. Try M-x apropos and search sound ring or bell finnaly found this function called ring bell function. The manual says the default value is nil, and if it is not nil then ring the bell. So if we can make it always nil then it should be no more ring. There are two functions related to this, one is always it always return to t, another one is ignore, it will always return nil. So we could use:

(setq ring-bell-function 'ignore)

in our config file, the world will be quiet next time.