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s1gma

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Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 45

gvim and cursor blinking

I tried gvim yesterday, and I found it great, exept for one thing. When I move the cursor (in normal mode), the character under it appears after a small delay. It is noticable when the cursor does not blink. But if you set the cursor blinking option, the character blinks too (i.e it gets selected each time the cursor blink, and since it takes a few tenth of second to appear, it blinks too).
The result is an annoying double blinking: cursor and selected character. And they blink at different frequency, this is really driving me insane :-)
Do you know how to disable that (character blinking, I'd like to keep cursor blinking) ?

Note : vanilla vimrc file, gvimrc file empty, no color theme.

s1gma

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Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 45

Re: gvim and cursor blinking

I found this thread on the forum : it seems to be linked to a bug in intel X11 driver.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92317

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: gvim and cursor blinking

s1gma,

I don't have that character blinking problem. Gvim is affected by /etc/vimrc, ~/.vimrc and ~/.gvimrc.

Have no idea why you are getting the character blinking. Parameters I have that could affect it (wild guess), are

set ruler                       " show the cursor position all the time
set mouse=a

There are many .vimrc/.gvimrc examples on the net. Try using one of them.

Mektub

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