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On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:00:26 +0000 tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> I am playing around with colorschemes in vim and came across a problem: It seems impossible to change the fore-/background color of the cursor itself. |
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> $TERM is xterm-256color and vim itself offers settings for the color of the cursor. Different colortests for terminals validate that the terminal is able to display 256 colors. |
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> Is there something special terminal-wise when setting cursor colors ? |
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> Why does it fail? |
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Cursor colour has its own control sequence: |
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http://rcr.io/words/dynamic-xterm-colors.html |
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e.g. |
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echo -ne "\033]12;#DD3123\007" |
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will change your cursor to red (colour DD3123) without affecting |
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normal text foreground and background colors. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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