Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:49:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach <johannes-maria@t-online.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vim and cursor-over-"chars" question Message-ID: <1490805295.22897370.1410378589785.JavaMail.root@his.com> In-Reply-To: <20140910131448.GA1574@holstein.holy.cow>
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----- Original Message ----- | From: "Parv" <parv@pair.com> | To: "Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach" <johannes-maria@t-online.de> | Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:14:48 AM | Subject: Re: vim and cursor-over-"chars" question | | in message <20140910132008.GA1958@localhost>, | wrote Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach thusly... | > | ... | > or you can set this xterm configuration in your .vimrc: | > | > for cursor in command mode: | > | > let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;orange\x7" | > | > and in insert mode: | > | > let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;orange\x7" | > | > where you can choose a different colour. | | Thanks much, Johannes-Maria. | | Only thing is that cursor color (with which xterm was started) is | not restored after editing or opening a file in vim. I can live with | that. A 112 (in contrast to 12) is supposed to reset the cursor color to its initial value. Using that would help eliminate the explicit color here. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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