On (14:35 28/12/08), Dave Wood <[email protected]> put forth the proposition: > >On (00:08 29/12/08), Ben Schmidt <[email protected]> put forth the >proposition: >> >>Dave Wood wrote: >>> I have been using an escape code in my ~/.bashrc to make the cursor into a >>> block, which is much easier to see when searching through man pages etc. >> >>I presume you're on a Unix-like system. If you're on Windows, perhaps >>'guicursor' is relevant. But, assuming you're not... > >Linux. > >> >>What's the escape code? > >echo -ne "\033[?06;14;224c" > >>You need to put it into the t_SI and/or t_EI options much like shown at >> >> :help termcap-cursor-shape >> >>i.e. with something like >> >> let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;purple\x7" >> let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;blue\x7" > >I will expermiment with these, thanks.
These codes just freak out vim. They print something in the status error and leave bits of text in whichever window I'm working in. I presume that this is because in the help section for termcap-cursor-shape they are used for xterm. I am using the plain linux console without X at the moment. > >>but obviously with more shape than colour-related escapes. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Ben. >> >> >> >> >> >-- >Help stamp out and abolish redundancy. > > > -- [From an announcement of a congress of the International Ontopsychology Association, in Rome]: The Ontopsychological school, availing itself of new research criteria and of a new telematic epistemology, maintains that social modes do not spring from dialectics of territory or of class, or of consumer goods, or of means of power, but rather from dynamic latencies capillarized in millions of individuals in system functions which, once they have reached the event maturation, burst forth in catastrophic phenomenology engaging a suitable stereotype protagonist or duty marionette (general, president, political party, etc.) to consummate the act of social schizophrenia in mass genocide. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
