From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28768 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2010 15:11:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 28760 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2010 15:11:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.213.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:11:12 +0000 Received: by ywf7 with SMTP id 7so1379959ywf.2 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:11:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.48.31 with SMTP id v31mr4815108ybv.2.1280589070984; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.226.15 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:11:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4CA@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> References: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4CA@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty From: Andy Koppe To: Cygwin Tech List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00665.txt.bz2 On 31 July 2010 15:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: >>> I use Mintty with the following options: >>> Background: white, Foreground: black, Text: Fixedsys 9 pts, Cursor: >>> line. >>> >>> With such options, vim with default unix .vimrc colors looks great in >>> insert mode. However the cursor appears to be a little too thin in my >>> opinion (sometimes difficult to find on the screen). >> >> It's the standard Windows cursor, same as you get in any other Windows >> application. Try the block or underscore cursors for something more >> substantial. > > The line cursor is well adapted for insert mode (gvim switches from > block to line cursor when insert mode is activated). Btw, you can have a mode-dependent cursor in vim running in mintty as well. See the TIPS section of 'man mintty' for details. > Indeed, the Mintty line cursor is also used by WordPad but Word uses a > thicker cursor (probably for the same reasons as mine). Hmm, good point, I hadn't noticed that. Same in OpenOffice Writer as well. Do you want to enter an enhancement issue at http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple