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5. Defining a visible bell

You can add the entry for the vb capability in your own termcap file. Dennis Henriksen (duke@diku.dk) suggested to insert the following line in the termcap entry for console:

:vb=\E7\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E8:\
The trailing backslash is used to escape the newline in the database. Dennis' code does the following (his own words):

Some warnings about modifying termcap:


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