view runtime/tools/blink.c @ 5553:45ef9d2096e8 v7.4.125

updated for version 7.4.125 Problem: Win32: Dealing with messages may not work for multi-byte chars. Solution: Use pDispatchMessage(). (Ken Takata)
author Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org>
date Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:36:33 +0100
parents 3fc0f57ecb91
children 226ed297307f
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/*
 * An extremely simple program to make the cursor blink in an xterm.
 * This is useful when the cursor is hard to spot in a highlighted file.
 * Start in the background: "blink&"  Stop by killing it.
 * Bram Moolenaar  980109  (based on an idea from John Lange).
 */

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	while (1)
	{
		printf("\e[?25h");
		fflush(stdout);
		usleep(400000);		/* on time */
		printf("\e[?25l");
		fflush(stdout);
		usleep(250000);		/* off time */
	}
}