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From: shier@shorcan.com (Gord Shier)
Subject: Re: Making cursor invisible
Message-ID: <390f169e.837413411@news.bellglobal.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 17:58:41 GMT
Organization: Bell Solutions
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On Tue, 02 May 2000 08:21:05 +0100, Paul Williams <flo@rdel.co.uk>
wrote:
>Gord Shier wrote:
>>
>> I am using VT220 emulation, and I would like to make the
>> cursor invisible using the terminfo 'civis' string, which is
>> '\E[?25h', according to my vt220 listing. Sadly, this doesn't work.
>> Is there an escape sequence that I can send to hide the cursor?
>
>You've been making the cursor visible. '\E[?25l' (that's a lowercase ell
>on the end) will make the cursor invisible.
Thanks, Paul.
Unfortunately, that was merely a typing mistake in my message, not in
what I was doing. I have been using the 'l'. I've tried it from
little scripts, as well as doing 'tput civis' and 'tput cnorm' which
extract the appropriate sequences from my terminfo db. Nothing works
so far.
Gord.