From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 16:41:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FD6156CA for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA29640; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:51:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <37264B4C.F34BBE30@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:42:04 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I stop vi beeping! References: <19990427235012.B778@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > How do you stop vi from !@*?!$* beeping on errors when running in > an xterm? > > I'm running olvwm and have ``OpenWindows.Beep: never'' in ~/.Xdefaults, > ``set nobeep'' in .cshrc, and ``noerrorbells'' is set in vi, yet > it still beeps on errors. > > I hate computers beeping at me! > > It doesn't beep if running in the console, or in shelltool, only > in an xterm. > I don't know if this will suffice for you (it drives me crazy), but you can turn the beep into a screen flash in xterms by Ctrl-Right clicking, then selecting visual bell from the menu that appears. BTW: it might be Ctrl-Left or Ctrl-Middle - I'm not sure and don't have immedaite access to X at the moment. HTH -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message