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have you ever found a solution to make readline change cursor shape depending on mode? not knowing the mode before typing keeps me from turning this on, even t

• thristian 11y ago
  Honestly, I've never looked. Although it seems some terminals can change the cursor shape, it looks like even Vim doesn't bother to try, so I'd be surprised if readline could. The general solution is to just tap Esc a couple of times to ensure you're in Normal mode and continue from there.
• calid 11y ago
  You can do something similar using the show-mode-in-prompt option: show-mode-in-prompt If set to `on', add a character to the beginning of the prompt indicating the editing mode: emacs (`@'), vi command (`:'), or vi insertion (`+'). The default value is `off'. Unfortunately it's currently hardcoded to only use the '+' and ':' chars, and to only display at the beginning of the prompt. Chet accepted a patch I submitted for custom indicators, and this will be coming in bash 4.4/readline 7.0: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/22580/focus=22613 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/22580/fo... I have patched versions of bash 4.3/readline 6.3 available on github (the bash page has gifs showing the functionality in action): https://github.com/calid/bash https://github.com/calid/bash https://github.com/calid/readline https://github.com/calid/readline Note that the '\m' escape hasn't been accepted into the mainline yet, so as of now the custom indicators will still only display at the beginning of the prompt in the new versions.