CLI Blinking curser gone

[Michael Tucker]

Wait,

  I don't understand what you wrote. That appears to just make "root"
blink. I think the original poster was looking to make the cursor (ie the
current text insertion point) blink or at least be distinguished from the
background. I've noticed this problem under terminals from time to time,
but am not sure how to fix it. It makes it immensely difficult to edit
files -- as you can't tell where the cursor will start editing if you
start typing. Any ideas how to fix THAT (both in the console and in other
terminal emulation programs)? Or is there a way to apply what you did to
"root" to the cursor itself?

Mike

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote:

> Try taking a look at the Text-Terminal-How-To at linuxdoc.org.  You may
> have to use tset or look at TERMCAP settings also. Check out /etc/termcap
> too.  Maybe even termcap & terminfo if you have them install.
>
> This may do something like it too for tcsh:
>
> set e=`echo x | tr x \\033`"
> set prompt="${e}[5mroot${e} [0m@`uname -n`# "
>
> to get a prompt like:
>
> root@hostname.com# (with blinking "root")
>
> The \\033 is an escape sequence, which you can normally generate manually
> with the "ESC" key or CNTRL-[ (someone correcy me if wrong...)
>
> The [5m is the blinking part & [0m turns all attributes off.
>
> Those lines are straight from the O'Reilly Power tools book, a must have
> in my opinion.  O'Reilly also has a termcap & terminfo book, but I doubt
> it's worth picking up - maybe just a quick peek at the store to get what
> you need.
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Alexander Holst wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:21:30 +0200
> > From: Alexander Holst <holst@fh-pforzheim.de>
> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > To: YDL General MailingList
> >     <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > Subject: CLI Blinking curser gone
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I just finished installing YDL 2.2 on a PM8200/120. Everything seems
> > fine, except that I do not have a blinking / highlighted cursor on my
> > console.
> >
> > How can I fix that?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > Alexander Holst
> > Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
> > <holst@fh-pforzheim.de>
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> > fx: +49 [0]7231 28-6040
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