patch 8.0.0824: in Terminal mode the cursor and screen gets redrawn commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/392d1bfa5e14b9534af322003723ebd57cedcc64 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Mon Jul 31 21:18:58 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0824: in Terminal mode the cursor and screen gets redrawn Problem: In Terminal mode the cursor and screen gets redrawn when the job produces output. Solution: Check for tl_terminal_mode. (partly by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, closes #1904)

/*
 * 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>
#include <unistd.h>

	int
main(void)
{
	while (1)
	{
		printf("\e[?25h");
		fflush(stdout);
		usleep(400000);		/* on time */
		printf("\e[?25l");
		fflush(stdout);
		usleep(250000);		/* off time */
	}
	return 0;
}