Robert Cussons wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sorry, I know this should be a problem that I can resolve for
myself, but I have searched the vim help under "bells" and "visualbell"
and tried what it says and it doesn't seem to work, so your help would
be greatly appreciated. Basically, I always get the beeping sound when I
press 'k' but I'm already at the top of the file, for example and I want
to turn it off. I am running vim 7.0 on Windows XP Pro SP2. I have:
set vb t_vb=''
in my _vimrc, I have also set it without the quote marks.
I also have
set novb
and:
set noeb
in my _vimrc and I still get the noise! I am starting to wonder if my
_vimrc is actually being read from, it is located in: C:\Program
Files\Vim, although I put a copy into: C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70 to see
if that would resolve it but it made no difference. Is there a way to
get vim to tell me which _vimrc it has read when loading? If I type:
:set t_vb=?
into gvim, I get:
t_vb=^[|f
which I believe reads as "escape character f" according to the help
file, which has the sentence:
<Escape><Bar>f
In the GUI, 't_vb' defaults to "<Esc>|f", which inverts the display
for 20 msec.
I don't understand what "inverts the display" means, unless it means
turn the display upside down, which sounds a bit strange!
Anyway, it was the fact that I seem to have the default value that leads
me to believe that my _vimrc isn't being read.
Sorry for the rambling, but if someone has the time to explain all this
to me (or even some of it) I would be very grateful, thanks very much
for any help.
Rob.
"Inverting the display" means changing black to white, white to black, yellow
to blue, blue to yellow, red to cyan, cyan to red, green to magenta, magenta
to green, etc., all over the screen. The "visual bell" does it for a fraction
of a second, if enabled.
As noted under ":help 'visualbell'", to disable both visual and audio bell,
you must set 'visualbell' *ON* (not off), and clear the corresponding
pseudo-termcap entry, as follows:
" no bells wanted
set vb t_vb=
" must reset it again when the GUI starts
if has("gui")
autocmd GUIEnter * set t_vb=
endif
I use the opposite setting: by setting 'visualbell' on and appending a
control-G at the start of &t_vb I get both audio and visual bells.
Best regards,
Tony.
