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Disable annoying bell in Gnome Terminal, vim, xterm, etc?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2012

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

We’ll hear it when we reach the end of a line, we’ll
hear it when we hit tab to complete a word and there’s more than
one choice, in about 2 minutes you won’t hear it anymore.

It’s the simplest thing to do but we never look into it –
because most of the time when the bell goes off we’re in the middle
of something else.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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