Visual bell in VIM

[George Potapov]

Hello.
I don't like bell and visual bell so I decided to switch it off in my vim.
I looked it up in the documentation. It says:

== cut ==
When no beep or flash is wanted, use ":set vb t_vb=".
== /cut ==

All right. But there's a problem: this command works fine when entered from keyboard, but when I put it into my ~/.vimrc it has no effect. Screen flashes like regular visual bell.
What to do?

Version of vim is
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled May 4 2010 12:31:00)
with GTK GUI

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[Jürgen Krämer]

Hi,

George Potapov wrote:
>
> I don't like bell and visual bell so I decided to switch it off in my vim.
> I looked it up in the documentation. It says:
>
> == cut ==
> When no beep or flash is wanted, use ":set vb t_vb=".
> == /cut ==
>
> All right. But there's a problem: this command works fine when entered from keyboard, but when I put it into my ~/.vimrc it has no effect. Screen flashes like regular visual bell.
> What to do?

you did not look at the whole documentation. ;-)

:help 'visualbell'

says that you have to put this command in your ~/.gvimrc, too, because
t_vb is reset at the start of the GUI.

Regards,
J�rgen

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[George Potapov]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:16:26 +0200
Jürgen Krämer <jott...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > I don't like bell and visual bell so I decided to switch it off in my vim.

> > What to do?
>
> you did not look at the whole documentation. ;-)
>
> :help 'visualbell'

Thanks a lot, that worked. It's kinda clumsy to have two files to configure one vim, though. :-)

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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi George!

On Di, 03 Aug 2010, George Potapov wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:16:26 +0200 J�rgen Kr�mer

> <jott...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I don't like bell and visual bell so I decided to switch it off in
> > > my vim. What to do?
> >
> > you did not look at the whole documentation. ;-)
> >
> > :help 'visualbell'
>
> Thanks a lot, that worked. It's kinda clumsy to have two files to
> configure one vim, though. :-)

Alternatively, you could probably use an GUIEnter autocommand in your
.vimrc and then you should not need the .gvimrc.

regards,
Christian

[Tony Mechelynck]

Yes you can. I want the opposite (sound bell *and* visual bell) and I do
it all in the vimrc, with one value for console mode, and, in a GUIEnter
autocommand, a different value for GUI mode. My gvimrc is a zero-length
file. (If you're curious, I do it by prefixing a BEL character, 0x07, to
the visualbell termcap code in t_vb.)

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Ricky J. Wu]

In my system, I add these two lines into vimrc:

set noerrorbells novisualbell
autocmd VimEnter * set vb t_vb=

[Jeri Raye]

2010/8/4 Ricky J. Wu <rich...@live.com>:

>
> In my system, I add these two lines into vimrc:
>
> set noerrorbells novisualbell
> autocmd VimEnter * set vb t_vb=
>

This does the trick for me also!
Thanks
Jeri

[bill lam]

Втр, 03 Авг 2010, Ricky J. Wu писал(а):

But h: said 'errorbells' and 'visualbell' are default off.

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[Jürgen Krämer]

Hi,

bill lam wrote:
>
> But h: said 'errorbells' and 'visualbell' are default off.
>

quote from :help 'errorbells' (note the second sentence):

| Ring the bell (beep or screen flash) for error messages. This only
| makes a difference for error messages, the bell will be used always
| for a lot of errors without a message (e.g., hitting <Esc> in Normal
| mode). See 'visualbell' on how to make the bell behave like a beep,
| screen flash or do nothing.

[bill lam]

Втр, 10 Авг 2010, Jürgen Krämer писал(а):

>
> Hi,
>
> bill lam wrote:
> >
> > But h: said 'errorbells' and 'visualbell' are default off.
> >
>
> quote from :help 'errorbells' (note the second sentence):
>
> | Ring the bell (beep or screen flash) for error messages. This only
> | makes a difference for error messages, the bell will be used always
> | for a lot of errors without a message (e.g., hitting <Esc> in Normal
> | mode). See 'visualbell' on how to make the bell behave like a beep,
> | screen flash or do nothing.

I can see ":set vb t_vb=" is needed, but does it need to ":set
noerrorbells" and ":set novisualbell" again if these are already
default off?