issue regarding ESC in vi

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 06:00:23PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>On Friday 07 September 2007, Paul Fox wrote:
>>  > On Thursday 06 September 2007 22:49, Tapojoy chatterjee wrote:
>>  > > hi
>>  > > whenever we press ESC in vi there is flashing of the terminal..is
>>  > > there a way around it
>>  >
>>  > I'm not using vi myself, but looking at vi.c, there is some obscure way
>>  > to toggle bell/flash notification.
>>  >
>>  > grep for "bell" in vi.c
>> :
>> :set noflash
>
>i dont see this option in POSIX anywhere and default vi nowadays doesnt do 
>that by default ... perhaps we should invert the defaults ?  i dont see value 
>in something that annoys most people and is pretty worthless ...

seconded.

Index: editors/vi.c
===================================================================
--- editors/vi.c	(revision 19851)
+++ editors/vi.c	(working copy)
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ int vi_main(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	vi_setops = VI_AUTOINDENT | VI_SHOWMATCH | VI_IGNORECASE | VI_ERR_METHOD;
+	vi_setops = VI_AUTOINDENT | VI_SHOWMATCH | VI_IGNORECASE;
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_VI_YANKMARK
 	memset(reg, 0, sizeof(reg)); // init the yank regs
 #endif