Re: The cursor blinks again, but I can't tweak it

Christoffer Aasted <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.vim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tested 9.2.956 gtk3 wl,x11 they seem identical with this caveat:

I noticed a hiccup that was consistent a few seconds after startup or after 
setting guicursor, however after that consistent. I'm looking into that.

On Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 7:41:19 PM UTC+2 Christian Brabandt wrote:

>
> On Do, 13 Aug 2026, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
> > The cursor blinks again, but with the following:
> > 
> > if has("gui_running")
> > set guicursor^=a:blinkwait100-blinkon300-blinkoff300
> > endif
> > 
> > or also with += instead of ^= (i.e. append rather then prepend) I
> > cannot make the cursor blink on and off equally long, it always blinks
> > on longer than off (as is the default) in all the modes I've tested;
> > and yet typing
>
> Hm, I cannot seem to see this (but perhaps I can just not tell the 
> difference visually), for me after the initial blink, it seems to do 
> exactly what I entered via the guicursor setting.
>
> Is this for the GTK2 or GTK3 UI?
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
> -- 
> Yes, many primitive people still believe this myth...But in today's 
> technical
> vastness of the future, we can guess that surely things were much 
> different.
> -- The Firesign Theater
>

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