> feel. The stupid bell should be killed dead. Actually, I prefer the bell over the more complex "alert sounds" produced by other operating systems--to me, anything other than a simple bell would be needless bloat.
(I'm reminded of the fact that every time I try to shutdown a Windows machine, I have to wait several seconds for it to finish playing the shutdown sound. What a waste of my time!) The bell can also be useful in shell scripts--just echo Ctrl-G to alert the user.
