Juha Erkkila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm looking for a way i can get rid of the blinking underline cursor > on console screen. i'm wishing to have something like a red > non-blinking block, something that can be achieved with: > > echo -e '\033[?17;7;64c' > > the problem is that programs like mutt and vim are happy to reset the > cursor back to the usual blinking one. can the cursor somehow be > permanently set to some other shape? or rather, is it easy?
If you are using bash, you can put the above echo command in the shell variable PROMPT_COMMAND, causing it to be run immediately before the shell prints a prompt. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
