[Iterm-discuss] [PATCH] Invers box cursor

[Marc <ma...@da...>]

Hi folks,
attached is a patch that adds a new cursor. It should propably be done  
differently but it works as I want it to and would like to share it  
with you nevertheless.

The current box cursor suffers from the problem that its background  
color is fixed. If I set it to a bright color I have a problem with  
bright backgrounds, and if I set it to a dark color it's the same  
problem with dark backgrounds. Unfortunately I often find myself  
having different background colors when using different CLI  
applications.

The solution is to do the same thing as other terminal programs (e.g.  
KDE's konsole) do: the cursor just inverts the character. So the  
character where the cursor on has the character foreground as  
background and the characters background as foreground. If the window  
is inactive a border in the same color as the character is printed  
instead.

What's missing in this patch is the changes to the PreferencePanel. I  
think it got converted by my XCode on Leopard to a new format (I'm  
more of a Linux guy who loves vim, mc and make :-) and am not very  
familiar with XCode yet... at least I managed to implement what I  
wanted pretty quickly). All you have to do is to enhance the cursor  
radio buttons by a new element (I made it two rows and two colums) and  
give the new element the tag "3".

Have fun,
	Marc

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Marc Haisenko
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