dear debian gurus,
how can stop that beeb whenever i enter a wrong command in vi ?

thanx alot
tim

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Government satellites recorded tim braun saying:
> dear debian gurus,
> how can stop that beeb whenever i enter a wrong command in vi ?
>

Smart XXX answer - stop screwing up.

More likely the reply you need ...

from the manual:
"5.3 How can I keep Vim from beeping all the time?

Well, you can use ``set noerrorbells" but it does not turn off the bell for
all cases. It only makes a difference for error messages; the bell will be
always be used for a lot of errors without a message (e.g., hitting <Esc> in
Normal mode).

If you want Vim to stop beeping then all you need is ``:set vb'' which tries
to do a screen flash rather than an audible beep. Some terminals can't do
screen flashes, but if yours does and you don't want it to flash or beep
then use ``:set vb t_vb=''."

or

(haven't tried this, put the following in your .vimrc)

set noerrorbells
set visualbells
set t_vb=

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* sk8r-365 <sk8r-365@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>:
> Government satellites recorded tim braun saying: 
> from the manual:
> "5.3 How can I keep Vim from beeping all the time?
[...]

just an unsolicited advice to consider:

this beep prevents you from typing stuff in command mode, at least after
a few characters -- this was sometimes helpful to me 

regards, Felix

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Government satellites recorded Felix M. Palmen saying:

> just an unsolicited advice to consider:
>
> this beep prevents you from typing stuff in command mode, at least after
> a few characters -- this was sometimes helpful to me 

I appreciate the "helping hand" myself ... I goof up and so do
the dev people who added that handy little helper. Yet, OP seems to
find the beep a bit too insistent ;)
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On 07/19/2007 03:09 PM, tim braun wrote:
> dear debian gurus,
> how can stop that beeb whenever i enter a wrong command in vi ?
>
> thanx alot
> tim
>

:set vb

That gets you a visual bell (flashing screen). If you want to stop the
screen from flashing, try this:

:set t_vb=

I'm assuming that your question is actually about vim rather than the
old vi.

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On 20 Jul., 00:42, "Mumia W." <paduille.4061.mumia.w
+nos...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 07/19/2007 03:09 PM, tim braun wrote:
> 
> 
>
> :set vb
>
> That gets you a visual bell (flashing screen). If you want to stop the
> screen from flashing, try this:
>
> :set t_vb=
>
> I'm assuming that your question is actually about vim rather than the
> old vi.

thank you for your hints.

tim

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