Neovim does not restore terminal cursor on exit

Question

The cursor of my gnome-terminal is an underline _.

I am using Neovim and I want the cursor in Command Mode to be: block |

set guicursor=n:block-Cursor

When I exit from Neovim I want the cursor back to underline. This is not happening. The cursor is staying as a block |.

Why isn't Neovim restoring the cursor back to the original one set for the terminal ?

Is there a plugin available to do that ? How do I do this ?

Tae · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-05 16:35:45Z

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You can and add this to your init.vim:

augroup RestoreCursorShapeOnExit
    autocmd!
    autocmd VimLeave * set guicursor=a:hor20
augroup END

See :h guicursor for details.

answered May 5 '20 at 16:35

Tae

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Why are you using such a complicated syntax ? Why not just use autocmd VimLeave * set guicursor=a:hor20 ? Why use augroup and what does autocmd! do ? – ng.newbie May 5 '20 at 19:31
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Is to avoid duplicating the auto commands every time you source init.vim. autocmd!clears them. See a detailed explanation here – Tae May 5 '20 at 19:49
But my init.vim is only sourced once during startup. Right ? So what is the problem if I don't remove them ? – ng.newbie May 6 '20 at 6:25
Then you should be OK, although it’s common to manually source the init file when changed instead of starting a new instance. I even have an auto command for that. In any case, this particular auto command is so small that I think it is safe for you to try it without clearing it for a while – Tae May 6 '20 at 6:36
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@Itachi you can add as many events as you want. See :help autocommand. In this case autocmd VimLeave,VimSuspend * set guicursor=a:hor20 should work – Tae Apr 29 at 8:12

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