Re: not in X. man command does not respect set bell-style visible
On 2012-02-29 18:29 +0100, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I like silence.
>
> While running a tty console
> (no X running)
> I include in .inputrc
> the line
> set bell-style visible
>
> this is clearly respected by say the
> tab command on an empty line (no beep, just a flash)
> however
> when i do
> man anything
> say man bash
> and then reach the end of the buffer and then space bar through the buffer
> then hitting space at the end of the buffer gives me a beep
This is because .inputrc is only honored by programs that use readline,
and the standard pager does not use that.
> how to get rid of this?
Make sure that less (the standard pager) is invoked with the "-q"
option. E.g. set PAGER="/usr/bin/less -q" in the environment.
Sven
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