Date: 2014oct8 Product: vim OS: Linux Keywords: vi, beep, beeps Q. How can I stop vim from beeping (making sound)? (eg when I press ESC in command mode) A. Add this to your personal ~/.vimrc file or the global one /etc/vimrc

set visualbell set t_vb=

This tells vim to visually beep you but then sets the string to do that to nothing -- effectively disabling it.