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.
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