Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-28 Thread Loïc Grenié
On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 03:03, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your > > terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it. > > Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday > to answer my (pretty

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 dec 20, 11:38:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > This is not 100% clear. For one, some terminal emulators do have escape > sequences to change "cursor style" on the fly (xterm [1], among others), > so a terminal-based application /could/ try to make use of that, (Neo)Vim can take

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-26 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 08:46:02PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your > >terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it. > > Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday to >

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Will Mengarini
* Bob Bernstein [20-12/25=Fr 20:46 -0500]: > OF COURSE the app looks to the terminal for its cursor > policy, and OF COURSE my terminal (mintty running in > cygwin -- LONG story) also lacked a block cursor. That sounds as if the problem remains unsolved. Three solutions: The first is based on

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it. Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday to answer my (pretty dumb) question! I'm certain this is one of those things I

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 12/25/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 02:13:29PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 2020-12-25 at 14:05, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> >> > This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the >> > yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this list, I

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Weaver
On 26-12-2020 06:53, Curt wrote: > On 2020-12-25, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the >> yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this >> list, I make so bold as to pose it thus, bluntly. >> >> I have prowled in 'man nanorc' for

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Curt
On 2020-12-25, Bob Bernstein wrote: > This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the > yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this > list, I make so bold as to pose it thus, bluntly. > > I have prowled in 'man nanorc' for some time now... >From what I've

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 02:13:29PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-25 at 14:05, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the > > yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this list, I > > make so bold as to pose it thus,

Re: May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-25 at 14:05, Bob Bernstein wrote: > This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the > yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this list, I > make so bold as to pose it thus, bluntly. > > I have prowled in 'man nanorc' for some time now... Can you

May I please have a block cursor in nano?

2020-12-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this list, I make so bold as to pose it thus, bluntly. I have prowled in 'man nanorc' for some time now... Thank you, -- A person of great honour in Ireland (who was