Re: changing vim cursor shape or color in vim 7.0

On Aug 28, 4:20 am, Marcin Szamotulski <msza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01:57 Fri 26 Aug     , sinbad wrote:
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> > On Aug 18, 11:26 am, sinbad <sinbad.sin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Aug 17, 4:55 pm,sinbad<sinbad.sin...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > hi,
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> > > > i'm using vim 7.0 inside a gnu screen.
> > > > i use vim by puttying to the linux server.
> > > > i want to change the cursor shape or color
> > > > whenever i want, basically i would like to
> > > > set the cursor to a different shape or color
> > > > when a variable is set. i tried experimenting
> > > > with t_ve option in vim. currently it is set to
> > > > t_ve=^[[34h^[[?25h, i don't know what those
> > > > values are, but i tried to change the numbers
> > > > with the hope that it might change either
> > > > color or shape of the cursor. but no matter
> > > > what vlaues i use the cursor just disappears.
> > > > i want to know what the values exactly mean
> > > > and how do i change them.
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> > > > thanks
> > > >sinbad
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> > > can anyone please shed some light on this.
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> > > thanks
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> > can someone please give it a shot. i ran out of ideas !
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> > thanks
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> These are my mappings to change cursor color (for vim in xterm):
> map @1 :!echo -ne "\033]12;midnightblue\007"<CR><CR>
> map @2 :!echo -ne "\033]12;grey100\007"<CR><CR>
> map @3 :!echo -ne "\033]12;chartreuse1\007"<CR><CR>
> map @4 :!echo -ne "\033]12;SlateBlue\007"<CR><CR>
> You can check if that works for you.
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> Best,
> Marcin
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hi marcin,

thanks for sharing. but those mappings were not working for me.

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