patch 8.0.0778: in a terminal the cursor may be hidden commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4cc93dc85a7aaf6bb1ccccc466f8d5fa523094e4 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Wed Jul 26 21:49:37 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0778: in a terminal the cursor may be hidden Problem: In a terminal the cursor may be hidden and screen updating lags behind. (Nazri Ramliy) Solution: Switch the cursor on and flush output when needed. (Ozaki Kiichi)

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!