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Bug 763935 - Support iTerm-style cursor changing escapes
Support iTerm-style cursor changing escapes
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on: vteparser
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-03-20 08:08 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2021-06-10 15:12 UTC
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Description Egmont Koblinger 2016-03-20 08:08:05 UTC 
iTerm2 has escape sequences like
OSC 50;CursorShape=2 \a
OSC 50;BlinkingCursorEnabled=1 \a

The advantage of this, over what we have currently, is that the two properties can be changed independently of each other.

For apps like neovim it might be a reasonable request to change the cursor's shape, yet leave blinking at the user's globally preferred value. 

Obviously I don't intend to replace the current CSI number space q, but to support both.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2016-03-20 09:57:56 UTC 
As I pointed out in bug 734823 comment 1, iterm has poorly chosen those escape sequences, since they conflict with xterm (OSC 50 is 'set font').
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 15:12:12 UTC 
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