On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 03:03, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your
> > terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it.
>
> Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday
> to answer my (pretty dumb) question!
>
> I'm certain this is one of those things I knew clearly, say, as
> few years ago as ten, but getting old sucks.
>
> OF COURSE the app looks to the terminal for its cursor policy,
> and OF COURSE my terminal (mintty running in cygwin -- LONG
> story) also lacked a block cursor.
>
Try to look in:
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs
ESC[1 q or ESC[2 q might solve your problem (there is a space before q).
Hope this helps,
Loïc
> Thank you all. You people are just great, but maybe I'm feeling
> that on account of all the time I've had to spend with my wife's
> family over the holidays. <wink><wink><nudge><nudge>
>
> Bob B.
> --
> These are not the droids you are looking for.
>
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