How to resolve the algorithm Terminal control/Ringing the terminal bell step by step in the Lua programming language

Published on 12 May 2024 09:40 PM

How to resolve the algorithm Terminal control/Ringing the terminal bell step by step in the Lua programming language

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Problem Statement

Make the terminal running the program ring its "bell".

On modern terminal emulators, this may be done by playing some other sound which might or might not be configurable, or by flashing the title bar or inverting the colors of the screen, but was classically a physical bell within the terminal.   It is usually used to indicate a problem where a wrong character has been typed. In most terminals, if the   Bell character   (ASCII code 7,   \a in C)   is printed by the program, it will cause the terminal to ring its bell.   This is a function of the terminal, and is independent of the programming language of the program, other than the ability to print a particular character to standard out.

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