Simon Iong

It’s quite annoying when you are working on your great software and computer speaker keep beeping, which tell you that you are doing something wrong. ( Actually we don’t need the stupid computer to remind us about that, right? )

Here’s a guide for you guys to stop the annoying beeps in different tools I am working with.

Stop beeping in vim

Add following config setting under ~/.vimrc to mute the beep generated by vim

set vb t_vb=     " no visual bell & flash

Stop beeping in tmux

Following settings are need to let tmux session shut-up immediately in tmux’s config file ~/.tmuxrc

# disable sound bell
set -g bell-action none
# disable visual bell
set -g visual-bell off

Stop beeping in bash session

There are two config files needed to change, first one’s .bashrc and another’s .inputrc.

# setl bell length to zero
setterm -blength 0

# no bell
set bell-style none

If you have other suggestion on disable beeping on tools above or other tools, please feel free to let me know.