On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:12 AM, John Little <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 12:02:43 PM UTC+13, Paul wrote: > >> Is there an (uncomplicated) way to >> ameliorate this problem? > > IMO you have an insufficiently conspicuous cursor. I use gvim with > > set guicursor=a:blinkwait200-blinkon200-blinkoff200 > > in my .gvimrc for a 5 Hz blink.* > > Regards, John Little > > *I know I'm in the minority liking a blink, but I think I save at least half > a second every time I'm looking for the cursor.
The default is for the cursor to blink: -blinkwait175-blinkon175-blinkoff150 for Insert-mode showmatch; -blinkwait700-blinkon400-blinkoff250 for all other modes. so my guess would be that you aren't as "minoritary" as that. The above setting is (in most modes) somewhat slower than yours, with a period of 650 ms instead of 400 and a delay of 700 ms instead of 200, but it is OK for me. To disable blinking, one would set -blinkon0 but I would never use that. If the default were not to blink I might set something like blinkwait500-blinkon500-blinkoff500 in my vimrc, for a 1 Hz blink instead of your 2.5 Hz (the frequency counts full up-and-down cycles per second, remember). (Sorry: I used to teach math & physics at the junior high school level, and I suppose it shows.) > > For vim in a terminal emulator, over the years I've resorted to various > (sometimes desperate) hacks to speed up the blink. For example, I'm > presently using KDE plasma 5.2 and there's no configuration for the blink > rate yet in Qt 5, except to compile a C++ fragment to a .so and preload it > with LD_PRELOAD. konsole is supposed to emulate an xterm (I use konsole 2.14.2 from KDE 4.14.9 and it sets $TERM=xterm and v:termresponse to some xterm-like value). Have you tried the settings listed under ":help xterm-blink"? Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
