From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: Patrick Ohnewein Cc: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: Re: Basic Questions Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:38:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.1.2.20000413123345.00ba8740@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <38F5F4C5.EAB7C16@prodata.it> X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00187.html At 12:24 PM 4/13/00, you wrote: >Sorry for this question, but I didn't find anything related in the docs >neither in the archives of the mailing list. > >Now is there some doc for cygwins-bash B20 available somewhere. I need >to set bell-style=visible, because the beeping annoyes my coworkers. Now >I tried to create an .inputrc file in my home dir, which seams to not be >read. performing set bell-style=visible doesn't work, doing it in the >.bashrc (which get's read from my HOME dir) doesn't work neither. So I >tried to set the environment in the startup .bat-file. But it seams the >shell doesn't care about the env var. > >How can I deactivate this horror bell :-) > >Another question how can I change LS_COLOR for ls, where do I get docs >related dircolors > >Where should I perform calls to bind, to change keymapping, because >.inputrc doesn't get read and calling bind in .bashrc doesn't have >effect. And may be a BUG in bind: > ># bind -p > ~/bindings ># bind -f ~/bindings > >sometimes does output that the file bindings doesn't exist and when it >doesn't output any error message it doesn't change bindings. > >I am only able to change bindings from command line, how should I make >them persistent? > >thanks in advance > >patrick Regular bash docs will do here. There's nothing special about the Cygwin version. I think .inputrc is only read for login shells (I could very well be wrong about this). You must make sure your .login file is BINARY format. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX (508) 560-1285 - cell phone -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com