Curses: How to make cursor invisible?

[Thomas Omerzu]

In article <1990Jul3.203337.6434 at d.cs.okstate.edu>
ramkuma at d.cs.okstate.edu (RAMKUMAR P RANGANA) writes:

>HI Ya'll!
>
>	I tried to find out the escape sequence for the  
>	vi = .. (entry in termcap) for making the cursor invisible
>	but could find one. I could not find the same in the 
>	terminal manual for VT220.
[...]

Try to use
	<ESC>[?25l
to make cursor invisible and
	<ESC>[?25h
to enable cursor again.

Hope it works for your terminal.



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