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RE: the beep
From: |
Troy Motte |
Subject: |
RE: the beep |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:53:02 -0600 |
>
> > > i apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge. anyhow:
> >
> > Your reading the manual page certainly would have helped. It
> > says, in the
> > description of readline variables that may be set in your
> > inputrc file:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> Well, I suppose I should read all 86 pages of the manual.
> That should only
> take a couple hours.
>
> When I did read the man page(s), I searched for "beep". Since the
> documentation considers the correct term to be "bell", I
> didn't find it. I
> don't know anybody who calls it a "bell".
>
>
> > > i cannot fathom what useable purpose this beep serves,
> other than to
> > > irritate the living hell out of me.
> >
> > Yes, that's exactly why I did it.
>
> Well, that pretty much defines you as a jerk.
>
> No, no, no.
>
> Chet didn't create that feature, *I* did, so *I* get to be the jerk.
>
> Brian
>
My apologies. You are indeed the jerk. Chet has only a minor man page
attitude problem.
Much thanks to all you nice people for your help.
tm