Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] Overwrite mode

[Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita]

Hi Brand!

On Thursday, October 12, 2017, Brand Huntsman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 02:35:27 -0300
> Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > moved IO related functions to winio.c and increased
> > visibility of cursor when in overtype mode (only for terminals that
> > support curs_set(2)).
>
> The overtype functionality of the patch seems to work fine. The underscore cursor in linux console did change to full block cursor and restored back to underscore fine. The cursor in urxvt didn't change when enabling or disabling overtype. printf '\e[3 q' changes the urxvt cursor to underscore but overtype in nano doesn't change it to full block.

The ncurses documentation says that curs_set returns ERR if the terminal cant change the cursor. I'll be away from my machine for the next few days. Would you mind to try the printf trick when curs_set returns ERR and, if it works, post an updated patch?

> It would be nice if the nano UI had another indicator when overtype is enabled
>

 

This is a bigger discussion and something that should be decided in the future, after this feature gets in.