visual bell

[Lyle McElhaney]

(Shouldn't be in net.sources; move to net.unix-wizards).

> Why is it that all of this stuff (don't get me wrong, I grab a lot of
> it and use some of it too!) ASSUMES that we all want the BELL char to
> be a ^G ?? You know there *are* some of us out here that use a visual
> bell and reflect this in our termcaps.

I think the best way out of this one is to have an environmental variable,
say VBELL, which, if defined, specifies that a visible bell is to be
executed rather than a noisy bell if the TERMCAP entry specifies it. Just
the existence of the vb in a termcap should not; I have to carry two
termcap entries for every terminal (one with vb, one without). I have
modified the Rand Editor to do this.

It's probably one of those things that should be in the tty driver itself,
but I'm not silly enough to suggest that....

On the same line, the bell character shouldn't be just ^G; there is a
termcap for the bell that should be used instead. How many terminals out
there use anything other than ^G?

Lyle McElhaney
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