Re: Locating the cursor

John Little <John.B.Little <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 4:48:12 AM UTC+13, Paul wrote:
>> I'm using Cygwin's X-windows.
>
> Seems like you have an insufficiently visible cursor. In gvim I use
>
> set guicursor=n-c:hor20,v:hor25,ve:ver35,o:hor50,i-ci:ver25,
> \r-cr:hor35-ErrorMsg,sm:block
> " this looks odd, but it works; the second setting of guicursor
> " does not undo the previous settings
> set guicursor=a:blinkwait200-blinkon200-blinkoff200
>
> for a 5 Hz blink.

I realized after answering that the problem wasn't well described.

The problem isn't determining which X-windows window (or Microsoft
Windows window) has the focus. It's determining which of the many vim
windows has the focus, and where in the cursor is, when there are many
vim windows opened and the font is small. All the vim windows are
subwindows within a single instance of gvim; so, the same X-windows
window (or Microsoft Windows window) has the focus of which vim window
has the focus within vim.

I find that I need to have a large "targeting" indicator to show which
vim window has the focus, and where the cursor is within it. (This is
different from the where the mouse pointer is.) I don't think that
changing the cursor will do it when there are enough windows open,
especially with syntax highlighting on. But I tried your settings
anyway. The first command generates the error "E518: Unknown option:
r-cr:hor35-ErrorMsg,sm:block" and makes the cursor into an underscore
rather than a block. I can't get it back to a block even after
running my vimrc, which consists of:

set gcr-=sm:block-Cursor-blinkwait175-blinkoff150-blinkon175 set
gcr+=a:blinkon725-blinkoff400

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