cursor disappears

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

hey,
i am using vim-5.6.70 as comes with potato and i am experiencing some
peculiarities when starting vim (or vi, but not mutt or other curses
programs) on the console. namely, my cursor disappears during the
vi/vim session and doesn't come back to the console until i issue
'reset'. not even logging off works...

now, since this is just vi/vim as far as i can tell, is this a bug
about these programs?

thanks,
martin

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