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From: Parv <parv@pair.com>
To: Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach <johannes-maria@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: vim and cursor-over-"chars" question
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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.


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