Re: Locating the cursor

Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic <at> gmail.com> writes:
|On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 10:15:43 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
|>
|> I don't suppose that some kind vim-script savvy soul could suggest
|> how one might other windows from flashing, i.e., have only the
|> window with the focus flash?
|
| You're relying on cursorline and cursorcolumn to "flash" the
| location of your cursor, if I understand your script correctly.

Yes, that's right.

| Setting 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' (the options) only affects
| one window (the current one), but you can turn it on or off in other
| windows as well, and the highlight will remain there when you leave
| the window. But the CursorLine and CursorColumn highlight groups
| affect the highlight in all windows.
|
| So, if you normally keep these options off, then by default you will
| only flash the active window.
|
| If, however, you have left the options on in other windows; then no,
| there is not a way to change the highlight of the cursor in a single
| window only.

I think that my situation falls under the "unfortuantely" category. I
often use cursorline & cursorcolumn in my vim subwindows.

Thanks for letting me know.

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