Catch 'bell' event

[Aaron Griffin]

On 3/23/07, Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle at gmx.de> wrote:
> > is it possible to catch the bell event in an extension?
>
> there is no such thing as a bell event, do you mean the ascii bel
> character maybe?
>
> that can be acomplished by filtering all output to the terminal, see e.g.
> the block-graphics-to-ascii extension, which replaces graphical characters
> by some ascii "equivalents". you could do the same with the BEL character,
> filtering it our or not as you like.
>
> hope this helps!

Just curious here - what about "visual bell" apps? Don't those
typically affect the terminal in some way (i.e. setting the whole
screen to reverse video, then back to normal) ?