On 23:27 28 Jul 2004, Anthony E. Greene <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On 28-Jul-2004/16:49 +0200, Jean-Christophe Valiere <jyce@xxxxxxx> wrote: | > | > If I put "set bell-style none" in /etc/inputrc it works (no sound any more) | > whereas, if I put it in ~/.bashrc it doesn't. | > Does somebody know why ?? | | If this is a valid environment variable, the bash syntax would be | export bell-style=none | and it should be put in ~/.bash_profile But it's not of course, because it has a dash in it. The core reason is that "set bell-style none" is _not_ a shell command, it's a GNU-readline command, which is why it belongs in the .inputrc (the readline control file) instead of in the bash control files. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Helicopters are considerably more expensive [than fixed wing aircraft], which is only right because they don't actually fly, but just beat the air into submission. - Paul Tomblin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
