Tim Harper <[email protected]> writes:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Tim Harper <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Stephen Bach <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:40:38PM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
Hi all,
I am curious: what private changes to Viper and/or Vimpulse do you have in your .emacs file? You can tell us:
here are mine:
What would you guys think about making the cursor-type changes a part of vimpulse? Is anyone happy with just changing the color of the cursor? Is that functionality already there somewhere, and I missed it?
I think this is really a matter of personal preference, and tastes differ. AFAIK the current Vimpulse behaviour in GUI is exactly the same as in GVim, i.e. full rectangular cursor in Normal and Visual mode, bar cursor in Insert mode, half-height cursor during operator input (with a minor difference from GVim). Plus you can set the viper-FOO-state-cursor-color variables to further customize the colours. IIUC (I haven't actually tried your code), the changes in your customisation change it to: bar cursor in Emacs state, hollow rectange in Vi state, horizontal bar in Visual state. I believe (and suspect I wouldn't be the only one) particularly the former two are rather problematic -- hollow rectange is normally used to indicate point position in inactive (i.e. unfocused) windows in Emacs; and I *do* want different cursor in Emacs vs. Insert state (as is currently the case and apparently not with your customisation). So I'd leave it as is -- it's a matter of a few lines for those who want something different, and it tends to be really hard to satisfy all users in this regard, so I'd stick with the both Vim-compatible and Emacs-sane defaults. Štěpán