Re: slow display update, maybe due to folded text

On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 6:17:38 AM UTC-4, Erik Christiansen
wrote:
> Ahh, I've found Vim's split windows so abhorrently restrictive (they
> show so little of the text), that I forgot they existed. Flipping
> between full-sized buffers shows so much more.

I do both, and I use tabs. When code bashing, I can have 6-10 windows
open. Some are tiny to keep snippets of code or log files visible for
reference.

> I suppose I do use one when invoking :help. In that case, a bright
> red solid rectangular cursor is an unmissable beacon against yellow
> text on a darkslategrey background. No detection aids are necessary,
> I find. (It's only a faint red outline when X11 focus is lost, or
> disappears entirely when switching to another Vim split window.)
>
> What I'm using is just:
>
> " Cursor Appearance and behaviour:
> " (Insert_Mode == Green, Normal_Mode == Red)
> if &term =~ "xterm"
> let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;green\x7"
> let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;red\x7"
> endif

I tried that with both the default colour scheme and my own, which is
optimized for my code bashing with syntax highligting. I find it
still hard to immediately find the cursor when there are scads of
windows with syntax highlighting, and often with search highlighting.
This is with cursorline and cursorcolumn enabled. They are dark olive
background (my default background is dark blue), so muted enough not
to distract, but present when I need to align things. Mutedness
serves its purpose, but this is at odds with screaming "here is the
cursor".

> OK, if in insert mode, the light green might take a moment longer to
> pick up if there's a lot of cigar smoke in the room, but hitting the
> space bar to make it move overcomes that. (Useful too if Vim's
> spellchecking has been invoked, and a window is full of scraps of red.
> Briefly entering insert mode, to make the cursor green, is an
> alternative instant highlighter in that case.)
>
> I find that with my eyes broadly focused on the whole monitor, such
> motion is immediately detected.

I suspect that our vim app window looks *very* different.

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