For emacs:

(setq visible-bell t)

in .emacs should do the trick.

-russ

Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu> writes:

> Is there a way to turn of the console's beep?  Ideally, I'd like to send
> it to /dev/null, or equivalent.  (^&
> 
> (It is loud and almost never tells me anything that I care to know.  In
> particular, if I have XMMS playing music, with the volume set at a
> comfortable level, the beep is often jarringly loud.)
> 
> Alternatively, is there a way to turn the beep's volume down?  (Other than
> by simply turning down the volume knob.  Even with the XMMS slider all the
> way up, the beep is at least as loud as (generally louder than) any music
> that I'm listening to.  If I'm comfortable with the music, the beep is
> disturbing.  If the beep is comfortable, the music is too low.)
> 
> I tried disabling the speaker/beep related options in my kernel config,
> but a beep still happens.  For the system in question, I'd be happy to
> completely lose the beep.
> 
> This mostly botheres me in an xterm attached to ksh and in emacs under X.
> I could probably find applications-pecific knobs to twiddle (or hack the
> sources) to eliminate the beeps there.  But, I'd really like to know if
> there's a nice way to do this at the system level.
> 
> 
>   ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu
> 

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