jeff@cjsa.wa.com (Jeffery Small) (10/14/89)
As a relatively new Sun owner, I have a couple of questions which I thought I would toss out for comment by you more experienced users. (I am running SunOS 4.0.3 on a 3/60 standalone machine) 1: Is it possible to alter the console's solid cursor to make it blink? The CONSOLE(4s) driver is described as offering a non-blinking cursor and leaves it at that. I would like to change this because 1: Within a shelltool or cdmtool window (using click-to-type), it is difficult to distinguish the cursor from the single-character selection block you get at some random place every time you click back to the window and 2: If you have a data-entry form on the screen that uses reverse-video fields, It is next-to-impossible to see where the cursor is when it is at the edge of a field. 2: When using vi on the raw console (outside of sunview) or within a shelltool or a cmdtool, I have notice that there is about a one-second delay between the time you press ESC to terminate input mode and the point when the cursor responds and repositions itself to the appropriate location. As an example, let's say you are typing a new line and finish the sentence with a period. The cursor is now positioned just to the right of the period. When you press ESC to return to command mode, the cursor moves left and sits on top of the period. This is where the one-second delay occurs. I checked to see that "timeout" was set within vi. The confusing thing is that this occurs on the console as well as on a UNIXPC when I rlogin over the ethernet - but I do not get this behavior from a Wyse-75 (vt100) terminal plugged directly into ttya. Any suggestions as to what causes this behavior? Thanks for any pointers. Jeffery Small (206) 485-5596 uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp C. Jeffery Small and Associates !cjsa!jeff 19112 152nd Ave NE - Woodinville, WA 98072 uunet!nwnexus