Re: request for marking a search match

[pepa65]

On 14/12/2020 22.15, Benno Schulenberg wrote:> Are you maybe using
--showcursor (or 'set showcursor' in your nanorc)?Yes, I have 'set
showcursor'.

> For me the cursor suppression (and the forcing it on with --showcursor)
> works fine in Xfce terminal, xterm, and Sakura.
With unset showcursor, they both work as supposed. I will stick with
'set showcursor' and then it won't matter to me which patch you choose.

> Are you sure you are applying the patches correctly?  These are not
> stacked patches: you have to revert the one before applying the other.
> (Also, they need to be applied to current git.  I don't know if they
> work correctly with released tarballs.)
Yes, patches check out, apply (and reverse when switching to the other
one) fine, on git. I am always afraid to pull any more recent commits,
because I have bad experiences with patches no longer applying. Is there
a way to tell at which point in the repo the patches were supposed to work??

Thanks,
Peter


On 14/12/2020 22.15, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Op 13-12-2020 om 12:35 schreef pepa65:
>> The cursor is blinking in both patches actually.
> 
> Are you maybe using --showcursor (or 'set showcursor' in your nanorc)?
> 
>> My cursor is just
>> blink-inversing anything it is on. This is in XFCE4-Terminal and in
>> MATE-terminal.
>> But on Sakura, the cursor seems to be always surpressed, with either
>> patch... I like my cursor to stay blinking.
> 
> For me the cursor suppression (and the forcing it on with --showcursor)
> works fine in Xfce terminal, xterm, and Sakura.
> 
> Are you sure you are applying the patches correctly?  These are not
> stacked patches: you have to revert the one before applying the other.
> (Also, they need to be applied to current git.  I don't know if they
> work correctly with released tarballs.)
> 
> Alternatively, check out the branch mark-the-match in current git.
> That should do cursor suppression (when /not/ using 'showcursor').
> 
> Benno
>