Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Re: blinking cursor in search/replace mode

> Le jeudi 17 août 2017 19:19:21 UTC+2, LGentis a écrit :
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > I use gvim, and cursor is by default a full black blinking rectangle in normal mode, and a blinking line in insert mode, which is OK for me.
> >
> > But when I do "Edit" - "Search" or Edit" - "Replace", cursor becomes an empty rectangle, not blinking. And it is sometimes hard to find it in a big page with many lines.
> >
> > Is it possible to make it blink in search/replace mode ?
> >
> > I tried without success this command :
> > set gcr=a:block-Cursor-blinkwait175-blinkoff150-blinkon175
>
> In fact, it seems that everytime a dialogbox gets opened (like Search/Replace), cursor stops blinking ; is there a reason for that ?
> Is it possible to make it blink anyway ?

This means the gvim window loses focus. What GUI is this?

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