andrewt@WATSNEW.WATERLOO.EDU (Andrew Thomas) (06/16/89)
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