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commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c95a302a4c42ec8230473cd4a5e0064d0a143aa8 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jun 12 23:01:46 2016 +0200 Updated runtime files.
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
date Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:15:06 +0200
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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>
#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;
}