Disable system bell

1. The annoying system beep on tab completions can be disabled in Debian by adding the following lines to ~/.inputrc

$cat /home/rajulocal/.inputrc
# do not bell on tab-completion
set bell-style none
set bell-style visible

Unlike "xset b 0", the above hack works even if you are not running X.

Tested on Debian Etch (currently stable), on

$bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

2. To disable the annoying bell sound in vim, gvim add the following line to ~/.vimrc

set vb t_vb=

More info for vim can be found at

:help visualbell

Tested on Debian Etch (currently stable), on vim 7.0.122

3. To disable the system bell sounds in tcsh, add the following line to ~/.cshrc

set nobeep

Tested it on Solaris 8, tcsh