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To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
Subject: Re: vim and cursor-over-"chars" question
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in message <1490805295.22897370.1410378589785.JavaMail.root@his.com>,
wrote Thomas Dickey thusly...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Parv" <parv@pair.com>
...
> | Only thing is that cursor color (with which xterm was started) is
> | not restored after editing or opening a file in vim.
>
> 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.

Thanks Thomas. That indeed does happen after I had changed the
escape code ...

  autocmd VimLeave    * silent !echo -ne "\033]112;\x7"


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