On 8/25/20 3:47 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Chet, > > I appreciate your help with this. > > Do "we" know that bash IS trying to generate an alarm?
Yes, we are fairly sure that bash is trying to `ring' the bell. When I run bind 'set bell-style audible' and type the common prefix of a set of filenames in the current directory, then hit TAB, bash rings the bell. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/