On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-10-09 19:29 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
This is an old not-a-bug issue, originally from the emacs users.
Emacs changes the cursor state (and iirc prefers using cvvis,
and doesn't reset it with cnorm).
Some other applications (vim and aptitude for instance, but not dselect)
also change the cursor, but to the normal blinking underscore rather
than the ugly blinking block cursor I get in Emacs.
yes - the more common use is to hide the cursor while doing
screen-updates, and then revert it.
It became a noticeable issue with this change in ncurses:
990703 pre-release
+ modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
Heckenbach <fr...@g-n-u.de>)
Before that change, emacs found no data for cvvis in the terminal database
(emacs of course uses "ve" from termcap), and did not modify the cursor
state.
Lacking any information from the reopening of this report, I'll have to
assume it's just emacs again.
The Emacs Wiki has some more information on this problem:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CursorOnLinuxConsole.
I've seen that before (it might be better to convince the emacs developers
to leave the cursor in normal mode - or to suggest an alternate terminfo
which they could agree upon).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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