Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] Overwrite mode

[Brand Huntsman]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 02:35:27 -0300
Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <address@hidden> wrote:

> moved IO related functions to winio.c and increased
> visibility of cursor when in overtype mode (only for terminals that
> support curs_set(2)).

The overtype functionality of the patch seems to work fine. The underscore 
cursor in linux console did change to full block cursor and restored back to 
underscore fine. The cursor in urxvt didn't change when enabling or disabling 
overtype. printf '\e[3 q' changes the urxvt cursor to underscore but overtype 
in nano doesn't change it to full block.

It would be nice if the nano UI had another indicator when overtype is enabled 
for urxvt and any other terminals that don't change the cursor.