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### 5.24 How do I stop Emacs from beeping on a terminal?

Martin R. Frank writes:

Tell Emacs to use the visible bell instead of the audible bell, and set the visible bell to nothing.

That is, put the following in your `TERMCAP` environment variable (assuming you have one):

    ... :vb=: ...

And evaluate the following Lisp form:

    (setq visible-bell t)