On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:32:14AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > A big, rapidly blinking > BLOCK cursor would help these old eyes find it a lot easier. But in 20 > years thats fallen out of style, dammit.
The cursor is a function of the terminal, not of the text editor running inside the terminal. rxvt-unicode (the terminal I use on Debian) has a solid block cursor by default. You can make it blink by running "rxvt -bc", or by setting the "cursorBlink" resource in your X resources. I wouldn't call it *rapidly* blinking (looks to be about 1 Hz), but it's blinking. (I've also decided that I don't care for it, and won't be using this option, but hey, that's what *options* are for.) Other terminals may or may not have similar options.