Cursor Not Blinking

[dkrieger]

Is there an option to cause the cursor to blink? I find it to be helpful confirmation that the terminal has (or doesn't have) focus.

[jwilm]

Blinking just hasn't been implemented yet. Even if it were, there's another piece missing to make i stop blinking when the window isn't focused.

[dkrieger]

I thought that might be the case, didn't see an issue for it though. Thanks for the confirmation

[jwilm]

didn't see an issue for it though

Thanks for filing this one!

[moon-chilled]

I'd like to express my support for an option to DISABLE blinking, once it arrives. I detest blinking. The screen is constantly changing, and I can't focus on what I'm writing. Not an attack on people who do like it, or anything, just a request.

[rafi]

@jwilm is the piece (to make cursor stop blinking when the window isn't focused) still missing? :)

[jwilm]

@rafi cursor doesn't blink at all yet

[Thermatix]

@jwilm is cursor blinking implemented yet?

[chrisduerr]

It is not.

[martskins]

any hints on where one should be looking to solve this one?

[chrisduerr]

This isn't super simple, since a proper implementation would probably make use of a common interface to specify things which can automatically repeat based on a timer.

Things like scrolling during selection would also benefit from something like that.

I've personally tried to make a little PoC of something like that work in here: #1512, however there certainly is some complexity to this and I'm not sure which approach I'd be happiest with.