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How to stop the bell ringing in bash
To stop bash from trying to ring the bell add
set bell-style none
to the /etc/inputrc file. You can also be added to a local ~/.inputrc file – but this won’t work if
you log in as root.
Also, note that this won’t stop other applications from trying to ring the
bell – for this it might be best to switch off the bell at BIOS level.
See man bash.
Other applications whose bells you might like to stop:
less: Use the -q option. This can be acheived permanently by adding alias less=”less -q” to your .bashrc file.
man: man uses the $PAGER environment variable to display man pages, or the default pager (normally less) otherwise. Therefore add export PAGER=”less -q” to your .bashrc file.
vim: By default vim rings the bell. To stop this type set vb t_vb= at the colon-line, or add it to your .vimrc file.
emacs: Set the variable ring-bell-function to a function that doesn’t do anything. (setq ring-bell-function (lambda () nil)