Yellowdog 3.0.1 PPC - no visible cursor

[Juergen Selent]

R. Hirschfeld wrote:

>Juergen,
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>>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:00:11 +0200
>>From: Juergen Selent <j.selent@elmeg.de>
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>>The problem is, that the cursor is not visible! It is an underline 
>>cursor, blinking black on a black background :-(
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>>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:54:43 +0200
>>From: Juergen Selent <j.selent@elmeg.de>
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>>Normally termcap/terminfo says, that the cursor blinks with the 
>>text-forground color, which indeed is white. But my cursor blinks black, 
>>so it is not visible. And I am not a "termcap" guru to fix the problem.
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>I'm confused about your problem.  If the cursor blinks from white to
>black instead of from black to white it seems that it would still be
>visible (just the other half of the time), so I assume that you mean
>that it "blinks" from black to black.  But then how do you know that
>it is blinking (or even there at all)?
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>Since others on the list seem to understand what you mean I guess I'm
>just thick, but I'd welcome enlightenment.
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I saw the "black on black" blinking in vim searching for a pattern.  The 
search results are highlighted with a different background color, an so 
I figured out that it is blinking "black on black", eg. the foreground 
color of the cursor is black.

Juergen