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jnurmine / Zenburn

Zenburn is a low-contrast color scheme for Vim.
http://kippura.org/zenburnpage
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Cursor is too Dark #19

Closed thecapacity closed 7 years ago

thecapacity commented 7 years ago
screen shot 2016-10-20 at 12 59 56 pm

I've tried tons of googling and random vim commands but I can't seem to set the cursor color to anything let alone something that's visible.

I love zenburn but it's currently unusable for me because I can't find my cursor at all (which is usually somewhat problematic but this is beyond...)

Please help! I think something darker would help but I tried the let g:zenburn_old_Visual = 1 and got no results.

This is using straight vim in a Mac Term window. thanks!

thecapacity commented 7 years ago

Note the cursor is on the line just above print(...) in the attached screenshot

jnurmine commented 7 years ago

Hi, this is due to the terminal application. I don't have a Mac Term at hand, but I'd guess your best bet is to use escape sequences accepted by your terminal in your .vimrc. Or, configure the terminal via its GUI if there's such a setting.

Also, test first in the terminal with: printf '\033]50;CursorShape=2\x7 and printf '\033]50;CursorShape=0\x7

If those changed the cursor, please try something like this in .vimrc:

let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7"
let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7"

If there was no change, the escape sequences above do not work.

thecapacity commented 7 years ago

Thanks, it doesn't look like that changed the cursor... i.e. I tried it from the command line (had to add an extra ' at the end of the printf ... (hoping that was correct).

I'm not sure why it's MacTerm specific though?

Really appreciate the feedback!

jnurmine commented 7 years ago

Yes, extra ' was a good addition, I misplaced it, sorry.

Vim uses the terminal escape sequences to change things like the cursor color. If some particular code is not supported by the terminal, nothing happens.

I had a look at some Mac Term screenshots. Are you using Mac Term in Terminals/Emulation/Base Emulator "XTerm" (and xterm-256color) mode? Maybe there is some "Emulation Tweak" which can be enabled?