Re: [Nano-devel] How to highlight cursor line

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op  4-09-2017 om 17:33 schreef Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita:
> I observed that finding the position of the cursor on a big monitor with a
> small font can be a bit a hassle with nano.

Why not change the terminal settings to show a bigger or blinking cursor?
Or why not hold Shift and press <Up> and <Down> a few times in nano?

> I decided to try to implement a feature to not highlight the line number on
> the line where the cursor is.
>
> At first, I tried special casing the code in edit_draw to disable wattron and
> wattroff if row == openfile->current_y. It worked when enter is pressed or
> when a backspace removes a line. To make it work when pressing Up/Down arrow
> keys, I tried experimenting with changes in do_up but could find no reliable
> way to repaint the lines where the cursor was and its new line.
>
> Is there a simple way to achieve what I want?

Remove the last two ifs from edit_redraw().  Just the ifs, not the thens.
That is: make it redraw 'current' and 'old_current' unconditionally.

Benno