issue regarding ESC in vi

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 07 September 2007, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > On Thursday 06 September 2007 22:49, Tapojoy chatterjee wrote:
>  > > hi
>  > > whenever we press ESC in vi there is flashing of the terminal..is
>  > > there a way around it
>  >
>  > I'm not using vi myself, but looking at vi.c, there is some obscure way
>  > to toggle bell/flash notification.
>  >
>  > grep for "bell" in vi.c
> :
> :set noflash

i dont see this option in POSIX anywhere and default vi nowadays doesnt do 
that by default ... perhaps we should invert the defaults ?  i dont see value 
in something that annoys most people and is pretty worthless ...
-mike
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