On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:25:06 +0100 Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the color changing is intended by upstream in order to > highlight tabs and spaces. > What is not normal is that the cursors vanishes in a gnome-terminal.. > this seems to be a gnome-terminal bug. That accounts for two (blue/no cursor) out of three observed types of terminal output. Regarding the third: suppose upstream intended a blue cursor over tabs. Logically it follows that any unchanging cursor would be unintended; that is, a bug. The cursors in 'uxterm', 'xfterm4', 'rxvt', and 'Eterm', are all constant color. I'd initially considered those "normal" -- would you say the outputs of those are buggy? Is it obvious what upstream intended? Suppose upstream wanted a constant cursor, and they habitually use 'Eterm' -- if so, they'd see a constant cursor and wouldn't see any difference. > Since I won't fix the color changing thing, as this is a new feature > provided from upstream and upstream won't change it I'll clone this > bug, tag the mc one as wontfix and reassign the other one to > gnome-terminal. If you would like to have this fixed, you have either > to wait until there is no more important bug, or you'll have to > provide a patch. > > Maybe you want to try what happens if you switch off the tabs to be > visible.. maybe then the cursor stays in one color. I don't know how to switch off visible tabs from within 'mcedit', but here's a one-liner to toggle '~/.mc/ini': export S="editor_visible_tabs=" ; if grep -q ${S}1 .mc/ini ; then sed -i s/${S}1/${S}0/ .mc/ini ; A=off ; else sed -i s/${S}0/${S}1/ .mc/ini ; A=on ; fi ; echo visible tabs $A (Note to 'mcedit' users: Don't use 'mcedit' on '~/.mc/ini', it overwrites any changes.) As you said, the cursor color remains constant with invisible tabs; it only changes color on visible tabs. HTH... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]