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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

>> I poked around, and it's "Settings -> Sound -> System Sounds" in Gnome
>> Shell that I had switched to a volume of zero.
>
> Does that have an option to use a visual bell instead?

Nope.  But you can choose between a range of different beeps.

> What is less clear to me is why Emacs should mimic the behavior of
> terminal emulators of 1980s era terminals that mimicked 1970s era
> terminals.  :-)

It probably shouldn't, but finding the least annoying change here is
unexpectedly non-trivial.

The visual-bell on Macos is pretty, but really intrusive.  If we want to
make the visual bell the default, we should perhaps change that first.  

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