[Iterm-discuss] [PATCH] Invers box cursor (resend)

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

Hi folks,
back in April I've sent an e-mail that talked about a patch but dumb  
as I am I forgot to add the patch. Here it is.

This patch adds a new cursor type that improves the visibility of the  
cursor.

Currently you have to specify the cursor color. This just doesn't work  
when you have changing dark and bright backgrounds. The solution is to  
do it like other terminal applications, e.g. KDE's Konsole. The cursor  
background is the characters foreground color and vice versa. Together  
with blinking this ensures that the cursor is always visible.

The attached patch does not contain the necessary GUI changes for the  
preferences panel. I just couldn't find a good way (one that I thought  
would be good enough for other users) to do that UI-wise and my XCode  
experience is still very low. So whoever wants to incorporate the  
patch needs to add the corresponding GUI stuff or use "defaults" to  
set it:

defaults write net.sourceforge.iTerm CursorType 3

Bye,
	Marc