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From:	Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Bash still wants to beep during tab completion
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:18:34 +0100
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Eric Blake skrev:
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> According to Eric Lilja on 3/19/2007 6:43 AM:
>> Hello, I've changed my .inputrc to:
>>
>>   # or, don't beep at me - show me
>>   set bell-style visible
>>
>>
>> But bash still beeps (one time) if I do for example:
>> $ cd
>> $ cd <tab> <-- Beeps here
>> I performed source .inputrc but got some error messages so I restarted
>> bash completely instead. What am I missing? cygcheck.out attached
> 
> Thanks for the report, and I'm still investigating.  But it appears you
> are using cmd.com based on $TERM=cygwin.  And in the readline source code,
> even if visible bells are requested, readline falls back on an audible
> bell if it can't figure out how to do a visible alert on your terminal.
> Therefore, my guess is that the cygwin termcap/terminfo entry lacks
> whatever string causes a visible bell (and more likely, the cygwin tty
> code lacks support for visible alerts altogether).

Thanks for the reply. I will use set-bell-style none for now. I'm using 
TCI (like it better than rxvt), hope it's not causing any additional 
problems.


- Eric

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> Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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