William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> How do I set vim in the terminal to use the pipe character for the
> cursor when in insert mode?  This seems to be the default behaviour for
> gvim, but I am happiest in my terminal window (or the console) and would
> like this to work there.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

In Vim 7 you can use the t_SI and t_EI termcap options.  See ":help
termcap-cursor-shape".

I don't think it is possible in Vim 6.4 or earlier.

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