annoyance beep in x and at the console

[K.C. Chan]

All,
using bash shell on linux, using TAB to do command completion yields a beep sound. This happens at X and console session. In X, you can set "xset b off". Is there a way to do this so you don't have to type "xset b off" every time you open up an xterm. The same question apply to console session. Thanks.

[Oliver Schwank]

Hello,

you are looking for the visual bell feature of bash. For my version of bash:

# visible bell for bash
set bell-style visible

in /etc/profile did it for all login shells.

Think at vi also. ;-)) vim expects in .vimrc
set visualbell


Bye

Oli