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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZCOMM and vi
Keywords: zcomm, unix, vi
Message-ID: <112@omen.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 91 12:49:40 GMT
References: <1991May9.214917.5513@menudo.uh.edu> <108@omen.UUCP> <1991May10.195921.20408@menudo.uh.edu>
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In article <1991May10.195921.20408@menudo.uh.edu> wjin@csunb.UUCP (Woochang Jin) writes:
-This I already did. It just doesn't work.
-Why is it that the terminal displays blinking musical keys whenever I press
-ESC in vi ? 

That's because you gave a "display bell=visual" command, which gives you a
visual (but non spacing) representation of the ASCII bell character instead
of the usual audible representation.  This has nothing to do with backspace,
except that vi rings the bell when you hit too many of them.

To restor the bell to normal operation, give a "display nobell=visual"
command.