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cursor in vim / urxvt

I'm playing with my .vimrc

I'd like to change the shape of the cursor in vim (urxvt). I've found the following:

Code:

if &term =~ "xterm\\|rxvt"

  " use an orange cursor in insert mode

  let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;orange\x7"

  " use a red cursor otherwise

  let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;red\x7"

  silent !echo -ne "\033]12;red\007"

  " reset cursor when vim exits

  autocmd VimLeave * silent !echo -ne "\033]112\007"

  " use \003]12;gray\007 for gnome-terminal

endif

And changing the cursor shape.

Code:

if &term =~ '^xterm'

  " solid underscore

  let &t_SI .= "\<Esc>[4 q"

  " solid block

  let &t_EI .= "\<Esc>[2 q"

  " 1 or 0 -> blinking block

  " 3 -> blinking underscore

endif

It works fine for xterm, but I can't get it work in urxvt. I've changed the following:

Code:

if &term =~ "xterm\\|rxvt"

to "urxvt", "Urxvt", "^urxvt", "rxvt", "rxvt-unicode" but have no luck.

That's my .Xresources

Code:

XTerm*faceName: Inconsolata

XTerm*faceSize: 13

XTerm*cursorBlink: true

XTerm*cursorUnderLine: true

XTerm*saveLines:  32768

XTerm*locale: true

XTerm*utf8: 1

XTerm*termName: xterm-256color

XTerm*autoWrap: true



Xft.dpi: 96

Xft.antialias: 1

Xft.hinting: 1

Xft.hintstyle: hintslight

Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

Xft.rgba: rgb

Xft.autohint: 0



URxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=17

URxvt.saveLines: 65535

URxvt.scrollBar: false

URxvt.depth: 32

URxvt*cursorUnderline: true

URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode-256color

URxvt.perl-ext-common:  default,matcher

URxvt*urlLauncher:      /usr/bin/firefox

URxvt.matcher.button:  1

URxvt.internalBorder: 0

Rxvt*cursorBlink: true

Rxvt*visualBell: true





# Enabling Ctrl/Alt + arro keys for vim

URxvt.keysym.M-Up:      \033[1;3A

URxvt.keysym.M-Down:    \033[1;3B

URxvt.keysym.M-Right:  \033[1;3C

URxvt.keysym.M-Left:    \033[1;3D

URxvt.keysym.M-Prior:  \033[5;3~

URxvt.keysym.M-Next:    \033[6;3~

URxvt.keysym.M-End:    \033[1;3F

URxvt.keysym.M-Home:    \033[1;3H



URxvt.keysym.C-Up:      \033[1;5A

URxvt.keysym.C-Down:    \033[1;5B

URxvt.keysym.C-Right:  \033[1;5C

URxvt.keysym.C-Left:    \033[1;5D

URxvt.keysym.C-Prior:  \033[5;5~

URxvt.keysym.C-Next:    \033[6;5~

URxvt.keysym.C-End:    \033[1;5F

URxvt.keysym.C-Home:    \033[1;5H

Thank you.

Replying because nobody else has ...

Perhaps the &t_* settings do not work with urxvt. Perhaps &term is none of the values tried so far.

The &t_* settings could be tested with urxvt by removing the conditional test -- either by removing the if and endif lines or by adding an else.

Alternatively it should (TM) be possible to make vim display the value of &term. Could it be the value set by URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode-256color ?

All of this would be trivial to investigate with a knowledge of the scripting language vim uses in .vimrc but my attempts to find a reference for it have found only bewilderingly complex examples of using it and nothing about the language itself.

Thanks. I'm at work now but I'll check it in the evening. Why didn't I think about it before? It makes sense:

1. It doesn't have to be a conditional statement.
2. I didn't see the correlation between the name set in .Xresources and the script.

I'll check it later.

It seems urxvt does not support vim's &t_* settings. I changed the name to the one mentioned in .Xresources with no luck. Then I removed the conditional bits and it works with xterm and sakura but still has no effect on urxvt. Interestingly enough it works in rxvt. How different are rxvt and rxvt-unicode?

AFAIK urxvt is very similar to rxvt apart from the Unicode extensions.

The best place to ask the current question might be the urxvt mailing list. Subscription is via http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode. In case it has been answered before it would be worth searching the mailing list archive at http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin (Post 4762931)

Thanks catkin. I've already tried to subscribe to their mailing list twice. I have been waiting for any kind of confirmation for 2 days. A couple of hours ago I /joined their irc channel. I'm still the only person there.

Having said that, I've found a solution. Since rxvt and urxvt differ only in the unicode bit, it must have been something in my config that stopped urxvt from executing the script. I've done what I should've done in the first place, ie. comment out the urxvt entries in .Xresources. As one can guess, the culprit was:

Code:

URxvt*cursorUnderline: true

Cheers

sycamorex

Glad you found the solution :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex (Post 4763930)

Thanks catkin. I've already tried to subscribe to their mailing list twice. I have been waiting for any kind of confirmation for 2 days.

Sorry -- I can't remember how the procedure went but do not recall any trouble. Maybe there was no confirmation; have you tried posting to the mailing list? I am happy to try to help if you like; contact via this thread or LQ PM.

Thanks catkin. The confirmation was delayed by afair 3 days. In the end I received 2 confirmation emails.