mellman@ttrdd.UUCP (Thomas Mellman) (07/17/87)
Does anybody know why the macro facility of vi is so noisy, and/or what I can do about it? I define a lot of the special function keys on my terminal to be various things, like cursor keys to scroll, and the equal sign to be a non-shifted go-to-end-of-line. It's great, but I'm always getting completely irrelevant bells. Not always, but roughly 50% of all macro operations generate a bell. The bells occur with operations on short lines as well as long, and with noerrorbells set or cleared. It's a puzzle. ihnp4!ttrdd!mellman
kimcm@olamb.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) (07/20/87)
In article <192@ttrdd.UUCP>, mellman@ttrdd.UUCP (Thomas Mellman) writes: > Does anybody know why the macro facility of vi is so noisy, and/or > what I can do about it? Well, if you're really tired of hearing all those bells change the termcap/terminfo entry for the terminal(s) in question. The variable you'll need to set is vb (termcap) flash (terminfo) to either a string that will make your screen flash (best solution) or some sting that will do absolutely nothing on the screen (assuming your screen can't do flashing). Kim Chr. Madsen.