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- From: 754clifton@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: emacs bell
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.164804.5014@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:48:04 EST
- References: <1992Aug18.065207.22053@newstand.syr.edu> <BEDERS.92Aug19125704@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <BEDERS.92Aug19125704@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de>, beders@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Jochen Bedersdorfer) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug18.065207.22053@newstand.syr.edu> jtcox@gumby.syr.edu (Ted Cox) writes:
- >
- >
- > Summary: Can I turn off the bell in emacs?
- >
- > A solution that works for me, is to replace all ^G (should be the bell)
- > with ^@ wich means 'nothing' in your termcap.dat file.
- > There must be a simpler, more emacs-like solution, but
- > I am not an emacs-guru...
- >
-
- Ordinarily you would add (setq visible-bell t) to your .emacs file to `flash'
- the screen instead of sounding the bell, but I don't know of any way to do
- this on a PC. Insead change :vb=^G: to :vb=: in the term entry of your
- termcap.dat file. What could be simplier that that?
-
- /Doug
-