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Subject: | Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty |
Date: | Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:24:41 +0200 |
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From: | "JOHNER Jean 066030" <Jean DOT JOHNER AT cea DOT fr> |
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On 29 July 2010 21:33, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I use Mintty with the following options: >> Background: white, Foreground: black, Text: Fixedsys 9 pts, Cursor: >> line. >> >> With such options, vim with default unix .vimrc colors looks great in >> insert mode. However the cursor appears to be a little too thin in my >> opinion (sometimes difficult to find on the screen). > > It's the standard Windows cursor, same as you get in any other Windows > application. Try the block or underscore cursors for something more > substantial. > >> Could Andy envisage to give it some thickness > > Envisage? Yes. Implement? No, not unless there's substantial demand for it. The line cursor is well adapted for insert mode (gvim switches from block to line cursor when insert mode is activated).=20 Indeed, the Mintty line cursor is also used by WordPad but Word uses a thicker cursor (probably for the same reasons as mine). Perhaps you could envisage proposing both. Anyway, it is a detail. Thank you again for this very nice piece of code. Jean Johner -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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