Hello all, Sorry in advance if this is poorly formatted; I used plain-text mode in gmail but who knows if that works properly.
While hunting down some problems on a terminal, I ran across the option 'prefer-visible-bell'. It took me some time looking into this before finding out it was deprecated in favor of 'bell-style' about 20 years ago, per: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-02/msg00186.html. Despite that, it still shows up in stackoverflow answers and reddit threads even from as recently as six months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/1b55k9f/that_stupid_bell/kt3l0hm/. Could this option be documented in the man page? It would have saved me a bit of wasted time, and it would give me a resource to point to (other than an old mailing list thread) to authoritatively state it's been superseded. Is it non-functional now? If so, is it synonymous with setting bell-style visual? And is setting it off synonymous with bell-style none? Additionally, as discussed in the mail link above, I think the 'convert-meta' and 'input-meta' need slightly more description. For example, is this statement accurate: "The convert-meta variable has no effect if input-meta is off." From the manpage I would think so, but I'm just not confident. I also can't tell conclusively whether the output-meta variable is affected by convert-meta, or vice-versa. Thanks for your time, John Devin
