Octave/Msys Beep Disable on WIndows

[JasonNicholson]

I work in a shared office environment.  I cannot allow the beep/bell to be
active.  With Octave, it has taken me several days to track down how to
disable it.  Here is how:

The key is that the environment variable "bell-style" must be set to "none"
for MSYS which comes with Octave.  There is two other options "audible" and
"visible".  Note that the "visible" setting seems to produce the same result
as "audible"  with Octiave 3.6.4 compiled with visual studio and
msys/bin/sh.exe version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys).  

1. You need to edit Octave-3.6.4\share\octave\3.6.4\m\startup\inputrc
2. Add this to the end of inputrc:

## Disable the beep!
set bell-style none


3.  Restart Octave and check that it is disabled.


I know in coming years some will find this thread and the procedure will be
a little different.  I bet the key will be finding the "inputrc" file.  

God Speed,
Jason Nicholson

PS: If the maintainers have a better solution, please reply to this thread.



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