Re: toggle cursor guide from via command line?

On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 1:16:09 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Richard Mitchell wrote:
> > Can the cursor guide be toggled via a script/command line?
> >
> > Normally I like the cursor guide on, but I'm writing some code that moves the cursor around the screen quit a bit and the cursor guide is distracting. I'd like the program to be able to disable it on start and then restore it at the end.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> What exactly do you call the cursor guide?
>
> If you mean the horizontal and/or vertical highlight on the line
> and/or column containing the cursor, that's governed by an option:
> :help 'cursorcolumn'
> :help 'cursorline'
>
> If you want to freeze the viewport while your script makes changes
> above the first visible line or below the last one, I'm afraid you
> can't, but maybe there is some subtlety I missed.
>
> If you mean the variously shaped spot at the very character cell
> you're changing, then:
> - in a terminal in a non-Windows OS, it's under control of the
> terminal, the only way Vim can act on it is by means of the termcap
> codes t_SI, t_SR and t_EI (qq.v.)
> - in the Windows console and in gvim, it is under control of
> the 'guicursor' option (q.v.)
>
> If you mean the (left, right and/or bottom) scrollbars, then in gvim
> they are under control of the 'guioptions' option (q.v.). In a
> terminal they are under control of the terminal and I think Vim can't
> touch them.
>
> If you mean the numbers at lower right telling you (in numbers) the
> current line and column, that's under control of the 'ruler' and/or
> 'statusline' options (qq.v.).
>
> Oh, and before you ask, q.v. and qq.v. are common English
> abbreviations for the Latin prases "quem/quam/quod vide" ("look it
> up") and "quos/quas/quæ vide" ("look them up") respectively.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

I'm an idiot and posted to the wrong group, was meant for iterm2.

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