Setting cursor style to vertical bar

[Emanuele Giaquinta]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:04:34AM +0200, Giorgos Bitzes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently xterm has introduced an extension to the DECSCUSR escape
> sequences for setting the cursor shape to include solid and blinking
> vertical bars.
> 
> http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECSCUSR
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13868817/urxvt-cursor-shape-set-to
> 
> It would be nice if urxvt had this feature.. an obvious use case would
> be vim, for example. Block cursor in normal mode and vertical bar in
> insert. Are there any plans to support it? Would you accept a patch
> that added this functionality, if I were to make one?

such a patch was recently proposed in

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753280

but we haven't had the time and motivation to review it. We are not
opposed to the feature in general but the patch should be as clean and
small as possible to be accepted. From a quick look the aforementioned
patch seems more complicated than necessary, but it should still be a
good starting point if you want to work on the integration of this
feature in urxvt.

Emanuele