Console modes: cursor style

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 11.01.2013 14:34, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Jan 11 13:52, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> On 11.01.2013 12:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jan 11 09:33, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>> The attached patch adds two escape control sequences to the Cygwin Console:
>>>>
>>>>   * Show/Hide Cursor (DECTCEM)
>>>>   * Set cursor style (DECSCUSR): block vs. underline cursor, or
>>>>     arbitrary size (as an extension, using values > 4)
>>>>
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>> 2013-01-13  Thomas Wolff  <...>
>>>>
>>>> 	* fhandler.h (class dev_console): Flag for expanded control sequence.
>>>> 	* fhandler_console.cc (char_command): Supporting cursor style modes.
>>> Patch applied.  Can you provide a patch for the docs, too, please?
>> Sure, but: where are the docs to be patched? Any package to be installed?
> Cygwin CVS, file winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
Patch attached.
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 <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
 
+<listitem><para>Added Windows console cursor appearance support.</para>
+
+  <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+  <listitem><para>
+  Show/Hide Cursor mode (DECTCEM): "ESC[?25h" / "ESC[?25l"
+  </para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>
+  Set cursor style (DECSCUSR): "ESC[n q" (note the space before the q);
+  where n is 0, 1, 2 for block cursor, 3, 4 for underline cursor (all 
+  disregarding blinking mode), or > 4 to set the cursor height to a 
+  percentage of the cell height.
+  </para></listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+</listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>
 For performance reasons, Cygwin does not try to create sparse files
 automatically anymore, unless you use the new "sparse" mount option.