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Article #122bash and beeping
From: Andrew Thomas
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1989 18:52
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1989 18:52
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I got this message from a friend who is also using bash. version 0.99... "J. Michael Berkley" writes: > In readline.c, bash does a bunch of stuff with tgetstr and tputs, i.e. > using termcap to figure out how to fiddle with the screen. Then it > goes and uses \007 to print a beep, instead of looking for a visual > bell. I really hate beeping shells. Is there any chance of > convincing bash to use vb instead of \007 (he even hard-coded "\007" > into a string - yech!). > > mike I second the emotion. Andrew Thomas andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!WATSNEW.WATERLOO.EDU!andrewt From: andrewt@WATSNEW.WATERLOO.EDU (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: bash and beeping Message-ID: <8906151852.AA13076@watsnew.waterloo.edu> Date: 15 Jun 89 18:52:39 GMT References: <8906151841.AA04143@watnext.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 18