Cannot see cursor in VIM?

[jonmullen]

When ever I am editing in VIM I cannot see the cursor to know where I am. Am I missing something in my config file or something? This is in normal and insert mode. TIA

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

gvim or vim in a terminal? If the latter, what terminal?

 

[jonmullen]

vim in bash

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Bash is your shell, not the terminal .. is this at the physical console? Putty? XTerm? etc

 

[jonmullen]

oh sorry...yah its a physical console...I am trying to get my new box up and running...I have x compiled, but can't get it up and going, and its had to edit your config file when you cant find out where in the damn thing you are. But yes a physical console

 

[Nothinman]

You don't say what OS, but I'll assume Linux and my best guess would be the console is using a framebuffer and it's not working very well.

 

[jonmullen]

It wont work even when I dont use framebuffer(take the vga=792 param our of my grub kernel call), and yes it is linux

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Tried using a different $TERM ?

export TERM=linux
export TERM=vt220
export TERM=vt100

etc. Try those I suppose. Maybe try running it in screen, see how it acts in there.

 

[Nothinman]

Even if you don't set the resolution, it's still using the framebuffer if it's enabled. I can't remember the kernel command-line to disable the framebuffer though, sorry.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Even if you don't set the resolution, it's still using the framebuffer if it's enabled. I can't remember the kernel command-line to disable the framebuffer though, sorry.

vga=normal