On Sunday 14 October 2018 17:28, Jostein Berntsen <jber...@broadpark.no> put forth the proposition: > On 13.10.18,11:35, David Woodfall wrote: > > I'm using the 1/3 block cursor in a plain linux console, set by a > > control code (\e[?3c). > > > > I find that a few applications (vim, mutt, moc, finch, calcurse) > > reset my cursor back to the thin underline, which is very hard to > > see. And the cursor will affect all other screen windows too. > > > > With vim I can set a custom cursor when I start it and exit, so > > that's not so much of a problem. With mutt I can stop it resetting > > the cursor by giving it a fake TERM of xterm-color when I start it. > > However, I haven't managed to find a similar workaround for calcurse, > > moc and finch. > > > > I've tried different init and reset strings in termcapinfo, but I > > can't seem to find the magic setting that stops the cursor resetting. > > > > A diff between xterm-color and linux.screen terminfos has pointed at > > the differences, but using those hasn't helped, unless I'm setting it > > wrong. > > > > Is there a brute-force method of stopping cursor resets like this? > > > > I realise that applications usually look better when the cursor is > > hidden for drawing menus and such. Other applications like less, lynx > > and elinks don't seem to have this problem (although elinks uses an > > option to put the cursor at bottom right of the screen, out of view.) > > > > Any ideas about this would be most helpful indeed. > > > > Can you do something like the answer in this post? > > https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/7306/vim-normal-and-insert-mode-cursor-not-changing-in-gnu-screen
Unfortunately those codes don't work in a plain linux console. I was using those before in urxvt. In a vanilla console the codes \e[?0c to \e[?6c give various sizes of blinking/nonblinking blocks. Using a number of 15+ allows it to be coloured too, but only for a full block. I have found a fix for vim at least - I set TERM to ansi and made a convoluted function that prints the control codes for the altscreen before and after running vim, combined with some t_ti and t_te settings in vim itself. That allows me to use a block cursor, and 1/3, 2/3 blocks too I imagine. But this has no effect on some applications like e.g. calcurse, finch and moc. I'm still looking for a solution with those. This has > Jostein -- Dave Linux: the choice of a GNU generation -- k...@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93 _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
