How can I disable bells/visualbells in vim?
I've tried:
set noeb
set novb
.. but nothing has changed afaik.
Just to be clear, I'm referring to the visual bell I get in vim when I do something that doesn't do anything, for exmaple pressing ESC
in normal mode, or pressing h
in on col 0.
Best Answer
To disable the bell altogether, you need to
set visualbell
(=set vb
);set t_vb=
(This is explained in the documentation of
'visualbell'
, but not very clearly.)¹ Even with
novisualbell
, you might see a visual bell if vim emits a bell control sequence (usually\a
) and the terminal is configured to flash rather than make a sound.