I'm trying to change the shape of the cursor in console vim. I inquired about this a few weeks ago, and so provided with the helpful suggestion of looking into :help termcap-cursor-shape
Well and good, I have a chance to try it out. I was going to start with the example from the help screen, but making that change in my .vimrc had no effect. I've done a bit more digging, and now I see that I don't have a clue what this section of my .vimrc does, or how I can make the changes I want. Here's the piece of .vimrc: if &term =~ "xterm-debian" || &term =~ "xterm-xfree86" || &term =~ "xterm" set t_Co=16 set t_Sf=^[[3%dm set t_Sb=^[[4%dm set t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;purple\x7" set t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;blue\x7" endif What do the first three lines of this block do? More to the point, how do I make my Insert Mode cursor into a pipe "|" and otherwise the block which I see now? Thanks. -- yours, William
