On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 08:46:02PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your > >terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it. > > Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday to > answer my (pretty dumb) question! There are no dumb questions. Any questions? ;-) > I'm certain this is one of those things I knew clearly, say, as few > years ago as ten, but getting old sucks. It does have its upsides, too (I speak from experience :) > OF COURSE the app looks to the terminal for its cursor policy, and > OF COURSE my terminal (mintty running in cygwin -- LONG story) also > lacked a block cursor. This is not 100% clear. For one, some terminal emulators do have escape sequences to change "cursor style" on the fly (xterm [1], among others), so a terminal-based application /could/ try to make use of that, for the other, your app might be a graphical app (nano is not, but that has to be established in the first place), then all bets are off. > Thank you all. You people are just great, but maybe I'm feeling that > on account of all the time I've had to spend with my wife's family > over the holidays. <wink><wink><nudge><nudge> You're welcome :-) Enjoy the time with your extended family. Cheers [1] https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h4-Functions-using-CSI-_-ordered-by-the-final-character-lparen-s-rparen:CSI-Ps-q.1CB1 - t
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