On 12/01/09 04:55, Renato Alves wrote:
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> Hi Tony,
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> I understand that console level is a potential headache since there are
> a ton of different consoles/terms and not all support the same features.
> However the reason why I reported this was not to address yet another
> term flavor but to understand why the cursor behaves differently when
> numbers are active. And if this can be easily fixed or not.
>
> About gvim, I don't use it that often. I'm used to run vim inside screen
> and jumping between multiple computers/X11 sessions without being
> constrained by X. I still haven't found decent ways to do the equivalent
> with GUI applications. But thanks for your suggestion.
>
> For now I have worked around the reported problem by enabling cursor
> blinking. This way I can see where he is even in visual block mode.
> Still if anyone has any idea why vim behaves like this I would like to
> hear an explanation.
>
> Thanks again for your time.
>
I have blinking cursor in both konsole and Linux terminal but it's a
block in konsole and an underscore in the Linux terminal, and there I
see interesting behaviour: without 'number', in block visual mode the
character cell containing the blinking underscore doesn't get the Visual
highlighting; with 'number' it does, but only when in the first column
beyond the numbers column. (In konsole I cannot tell whether the
blinking block alternates between normal and reverse-video or vice-versa.)
In Vim 7 "and later" there is another way to make the cursor stand out,
even in Console Vim: by means of the 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn'
options, and of the CursorLine and CursorColumn highlight groups, you
can set off the cursor location by means of "sighting lines" running
across your whole display. (In Visual mode, cursor-line highlighting is
suppressed, except in the numbers column if any, supposedly to make it
clear where the Visual area ends.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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