jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa (Freedman) (08/14/87)
I asked a question like this months ago - unfortunately I never
got around to implementing the answer and the answer has been lost.
I work on a vax 8600 running Ultrix with a vt100.
I like my terminal set up with black letters on white
background. Certain programs (rn,emacs with a visible bell etc)
try to tell me that I have goofed when I goof
by blinking the terminal. This causes the terminal to go into
the other mode (white letters - dark background) and stay there.
To go back to black letters-white background I have to go into
set up mode and re-adjust things. Needless to say, early in
the mornings, on bad days etc I can spend some time readjusting
things. There is something I can do to fix this but I don't
remember what it was. This is not a big deal, or a major emergency
but I would appreciate some advice. Thank you.
Jerry Freedman, Jr "As you wander through life
jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa Whatever be your goal
(617)271-6248 or 7555 Keep your eye upon the doughnut
and not on the hole"aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) (07/20/88)
I've got a variety of termcap entries here, some standard, some homebrew, that include the vb (visible bell) attribute. My question: How do I get things (eg, csh) to use the visible bell instead of beeping? (sun3/variety, sunos 3.2/4.0) -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34) beak is beak is not Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad
karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (07/20/88)
In article <1889@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: >I've got a variety of termcap entries here, some standard, some homebrew, >that include the vb (visible bell) attribute. My question: How do I get >things (eg, csh) to use the visible bell instead of beeping? Csh doesn't use termcap. In general, programs that produce line-oriented output, as opposed to full-screen output, don't need termcap. The only way I can think of to make visible bell work as you want it to is to convince the terminal to interpret an ASCII 7 (BEL) as a request for the flash. If the terminal is not smart enough (your GIGI? Hah!) you may have to run all your programs through a filter to translate \07 to the correct code for the terminal. See the discussion in comp.unix.wizards on command line interpretors; that would be the logical place to put this translation code. Chuck Karish ARPA: karish@denali.stanford.edu BITNET: karish%denali@forsythe.stanford.edu UUCP: {decvax,hplabs!hpda}!mindcrf!karish USPS: 1825 California St. #5 Mountain View, CA 94041
karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (07/20/88)
In article <1889@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: >I've got a variety of termcap entries here, some standard, some homebrew, >that include the vb (visible bell) attribute. My question: How do I get >things (eg, csh) to use the visible bell instead of beeping? Csh doesn't use termcap. In general, programs that produce line-oriented output, as opposed to full-screen output, don't need termcap. The only way I can think of to make visible bell work as you want it to is to convince the terminal to interpret an ASCII 7 (BEL) as a request for the flash. If the terminal is not smart enough (your GIGI? Hah!) you may have to run all your programs through a filter to translate \07 to the correct code for the terminal. See the discussion in comp.unix.wizards on command line editors; that would be the logical place to put this translation code. Chuck Karish ARPA: karish@denali.stanford.edu BITNET: karish%denali@forsythe.stanford.edu UUCP: {decvax,hplabs!hpda}!mindcrf!karish USPS: 1825 California St. #5 Mountain View, CA 94041
shipley@web2a.berkeley.edu (Pete Shipley) (07/22/88)
In article <1889@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: > >I've got a variety of termcap entries here, some standard, some homebrew, >that include the vb (visible bell) attribute. My question: How do I get >things (eg, csh) to use the visible bell instead of beeping? > >(sun3/variety, sunos 3.2/4.0) One way is to defile the audible bell character "bl" to the visible bell sequence. Pete Shipley: email: shipley@widow.berkeley.edu Flames: cimarron@zen.berkeley.edu uunet!lurnix!shipley or ucbvax!zen!shipley or pyramid!hippo!peter Spelling corections: /dev/null Quote: "Anger is an energy"