From: Fergus James HENDERSON (fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU)
Date: 05/30/93


From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Re: annoying bash quirk
Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 07:43:08 GMT

wes@cs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Tutak) writes:

>2) How do you turn off bash's annoying beeping. I'll accept nagging from
>certain people, but I won't accept it from my command shell. Is there an
>undocumented DONT_NAG_ME shell variable? (There should be!)

Yes, this is a pain. But I also wanted to stop beeping in vi, nn, etc.
My solution to this problem was to hack my kernel to give me a visual bell
(a flash of inverse video) instead of an audible one.

If anyone wants the patch, then mail me.

-- 
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