Terminal emulation: blinking cursor?

[Mihara]

I'm not sure it's a bug, because the last time I dug into the intricacies of Unix terminal definitions was really long ago, and I ran away screaming. But it kind of presents a practical problem:

The cursor does not natively blink, and Emacs can't make it blink.

Also, the result of running tput cnorm and tput cvvis commands is identical, a rectangle cursor, when the first one is supposed to produce an underscore cursor, so something is very probably wrong.

This is kind of a problem in Emacs, because when background is used for highlighting (i.e. on TODO items in org-mode) the block cursor can become completely invisible while over the highlighted text, and blinking cursor becomes a necessity.

[Quasic]

I don't think the cursor ANSI escape sequences for blinking are supported, either, but block, | and _ are:
printf '\e[2 q'
printf '\e[4 q'
printf '\e[6 q'

[rendiix]

Any progress for this issue?

[Freed-Wu]

So far, blink style is not supported by termux.

pip install rich
python -m rich|grep blink

the word blink will be still not blinking.

[trygveaa]

@Freed-Wu: This issue is about having a blinking cursor. That is not the same thing as blinking text.

[Freed-Wu]

sorry for my error :(
I'll open a new issue to ask whether it can support blinking text.

[fanlei]

Hope the terminal emulation can support the blinking cursor. Without it, there are two practical problems I met when using termux:

1. When switching between two windows using a keyboard shortcut like Alt + Tab, the blinking cursor can indicate which window is active immediately. Without it, I many times have to type something to make sure I am on the correct window. Annoying.
2. Block shape cursor in Vim makes the text under the cursor invisible. Just like @Mihara mentioned in Emacs.

[Folayemi-Idowu-Praise]

It shows this but it doesn't show the password stuff

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[agnostic-apollo]

It shows this but it doesn't show the password stuff

It doesn't should what password "stuff"?

[Bayu12345677]

HELP TERMUX BLINK PLIS