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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Parv <parv@pair.com>
Subject: Re: vim and cursor-over-"chars" question
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:14:48 -1000, Parv wrote:
> 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.

This is correct, and the setting does not apply to gvim.
Otherwise it works nicely in xterm.


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Polytropon
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