On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:09:55PM -0600, prata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:44:20PM -0600, Jim Yu penned with great insight: > > laptop. In certain situations, e.g. when I hit the backspace key at the > > beginning of a command line, it generates a very annoying beep.... > > Check in /etc/inputrc there is a line such as this at the beginning: > > # do not bell on tab-completion > #set bell-style none Note that changes to /etc/inputrc are global and almost always problematic for other users (some might say wrong). It is better to build a .inputrc file in your home directory ($HOME/.inputrc). Note that depending on your shell /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login test for and will take advantage of a .inputrc file in your home directory. The environment variable $INPUTRC is set and programs that pay attention to it will do the right thing. I would recommend: cp /etc/inputrc $HOME/.inputrc Then edit your own .inputrc file as Prata indicated. In todays personal linux box context it does not matter which you edit. There is a caution /etc/* files are fair game for OS updates and $HOME files are not updated by package installs. It is also possible to mess up input stuff. It is nice to simply rename a busted config file (mv $HOME/.inputrc $HOME/.inputrc-need2fix) log out logback in and fix it. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
