How to change the cursor style to vertical line

[filipencopav]

The title.
Pls i'm crying, i tried reading some of the source code but i found just UI_STYLE_CURSOR and i have no idea what it does or how to change it so i don't break vis. Please help!

[ghost]

Maybe someone in the #vis-editor IRC channel on freenode might be able to help you.

[filipencopav]

I don't know how to use IRC (shame on me) and nobody seems to respond there, but that's not the point here.

Is this possible? Like maybe just change some source code real fast and that's all?

[sh4r1k7]

I think you mean vertical line, and no, it's not possible - there's no special handling of the cursor, it's rendered like all the text on the screen but with a special fg/bg color (the UI_STYLE_CURSOR value) so it fills the entire area of a single character (giving it the block 'style').

[ghost]

@3dc1d3 there a small patch in #406 (comment) than can give you vertical line (called cursorcolumn in vim).

[filipencopav]

Thanks

I tried the patch and sadly that is not what i wanted. i wanted the cursor to be '|' not a block.

I guess @3dc1d3 is right and i just have to live with it ._.

[raphael-proust]

@Theamazingwaffle What you are looking for is cursor shapes. But their handling is terminal-dependent. So any solution to your problem would be terminal-dependent. See for example, the different solutions to achieve this in vim for different terminals https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6488683/how-do-i-change-the-vim-cursor-in-insert-normal-mode

It also relies on hooks triggered when entering/leaving insert mode. AFAICT, vis does not offer those hooks. You could try to remap i to execute all the entry hook thing and then enter insert mode… but in that case you also need to remap all the keys that let you enter insert mode (s, S, a, A, I).

[mskar]

Cursor shape should be beam in insert mode and block in normal mode by default. I have this working in vim, lvim, nvim, and emacs with evil mode.