RE: the beep

[Troy Motte]

> 
>    > > i apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge.  anyhow:
>    > 
>    > Your reading the manual page certainly would have helped.  It 
>    > says, in the
>    > description of readline variables that may be set in your 
>    > inputrc file:
>    > 
> 
>    <snip>
> 
>    Well, I suppose I should read all 86 pages of the manual.  
> That should only
>    take a couple hours.
> 
>    When I did read the man page(s), I searched for "beep".  Since the
>    documentation considers the correct term to be "bell", I 
> didn't find it.  I
>    don't know anybody who calls it a "bell".
> 
> 
>    > > i cannot fathom what useable purpose this beep serves, 
> other than to
>    > > irritate the living hell out of me.  
>    > 
>    > Yes, that's exactly why I did it.
> 
>    Well, that pretty much defines you as a jerk.  
> 
> No, no, no.
> 
> Chet didn't create that feature, *I* did, so *I* get to be the jerk.
> 
> Brian
> 

My apologies.  You are indeed the jerk.  Chet has only a minor man page
attitude problem.  

Much thanks to all you nice people for your help.  

tm