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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: vim colorschemes: A question regarding terminal capabilities
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:08:00
Message-Id: 20170410120725.7101ce95@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] vim colorschemes: A question regarding terminal capabilities by tuxic@posteo.de
1 Am Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:00:26 +0000
2 schrieb tuxic@××××××.de:
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4 > I am playing around with colorschemes in vim and came across a
5 > problem: It seems impossible to change the fore-/background color of
6 > the cursor itself. $TERM is xterm-256color and vim itself offers
7 > settings for the color of the cursor. Different colortests for
8 > terminals validate that the terminal is able to display 256 colors.
9 >
10 > Is there something special terminal-wise when setting cursor colors ?
11 > Why does it fail?
12 >
13 > Thanks a lot in advance for any help!
14
15 Usually the cursor has the color of the character cell, thus if there's
16 a red character, the cursor would be red.
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20 Regards,
21 Kai
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23 Replies to list-only preferred.