How do I turn the beep slash bell off in cygwin?

Question

The system beep/bell happens frequently (ie, when I type a few letters then type tab to autocomplete when there are a few options).

How can I turn this off?

I googled it and tried:

set bell-style none (the command went through but nothing changed)

and

setterm -blength 0 (got a bash command not found)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Cut the wire to your speaker. :-)

Answer 2

Add set bell-style none to .inputrc in your home directory. You need to start a new shell for this to take effect; that may be why your test didn't work.

Answer 3

Use mintty. Among many other advantages over the usual console, the bell is off by default.