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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: VI questions
Message-ID: <6548@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 00:44:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6548
Posted: Sat Oct 10 00:44:24 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 02:57:52 EDT
References: <5016@utah-cs.UUCP> <221@stag.UUCP> <3050@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <504@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 10
Keywords: VI, Bells

In article <504@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman) writes:
>In article <3050@uwmcsd1.UUCP> zhao@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (T.C. Zhao) writes:
>>2. I remember a while back someone mentioned ' visual bells' in Vi,
>In your terminfo (or termcap) file you add a 'flash' entry (e.g. escape

The termcap name for this string capability is "vb"; the terminfo name
is "flash".  Warning: usually, such entries assume that your terminal
is operated in a particular B-on-W or W-on-B state; if you use reverse
video when that's the opposite of what the termcap/terminfo entry
assumes, the first visual bell will toggle your B/W mode.