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From: mellman@ttrdd.UUCP (Thomas Mellman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: noisy vi
Message-ID: <192@ttrdd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 13:19:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdd.192
Posted: Fri Jul 17 13:19:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:49:27 EDT
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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Keywords: bells, bells, bells

Does anybody know why the macro facility of vi is so noisy, and/or
what I can do about it?

I define a lot of the special function keys on my terminal to be
various things, like cursor keys to scroll, and the equal sign to
be a non-shifted go-to-end-of-line.  It's great, but I'm always getting
completely irrelevant bells.  Not always, but roughly 50% of all
macro operations generate a bell.

The bells occur with operations on short lines as well as long, and with
noerrorbells set or cleared.  It's a puzzle.

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