Setting the cursor to a vertical thin line in vim

Question

I am trying to set the cursor in insert mode to be a thin vertical line and I am unable to. I have tried this in my .vimrc file:

set guicursor+=i:ver100-iCursor         


        

Answer 1

For gnome terminal version>3.15
Add this to your ~/.vimrc.

if has("autocmd")
  au VimEnter,InsertLeave * silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[2 q"' | redraw!
  au InsertEnter,InsertChange *
\ if v:insertmode == 'i' | 
\   silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[6 q"' | redraw! |
\ elseif v:insertmode == 'r' |
\   silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[4 q"' | redraw! |
\ endif
au VimLeave * silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[ q"' | redraw!
endif

You will get a block cursor in normal mode and a thin one in insert mode.