Leave the cursor on the current file about lf HOT 10 CLOSED

I don't have a strong opinion on this, never liked ranger behaviour much on this, having a square like right now is fine. Having an option to display a printable char instead might be useful when using remotely on machine that doesn't have proper terminfo (so no colors).

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@tspivey I don't know how termbox handles hidden cursors internally. I will check that and get back to you. I hope this will be possible. Is there a screenreader I can try on linux for this purpose?

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Not easily. However, if you run screen, then do control-a :info it will show you the cursor position, with lines and columns starting at 1.

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@tspivey Ok so it seems that termbox does not set the cursor position when it is set to hidden. I found a workaround for this by setting the cursor position in the original first flush and setting the cursor to hidden in a second one. I'm not pushing this yet as I suspect there is a cheaper way to do this by sending cursor position set codes directly to the terminal. I think it was part of the ansi escape codes standard. I will take a look at it.

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For future reference, an easy way to display cursor positions in tmux:

set-option -g status-interval 1
set-option -g status-right '#{cursor_x} #{cursor_y}'

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@tspivey I have pushed a commit now for doing this with ansi escape codes. If you're still up for this, can you give it a try and let me know if it works ok?

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I tested briefly, and it seems to work. What goes in the two spaces before the filenames, assuming single column mode (set ratios 1, set nopreview)? Or is that just a border? If so, it might be better to put the cursor on the first character of the filename.

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Counting left from the start of the filename, first space is padding (it just looks better this way, I guess), second one is selection indicator (it will be different color when file is selected with the space key).

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@KenjiTakahashi @tspivey There used to be a o character to denote marked items in the left most column. When this was the case a space was needed to separate that with the filename. Then at some point I have started to use a colored space instead of a character. We can always alter the design as long as it is functional. ranger changes the color of the filename to yellow when it is marked but then the type of the file is not distinguishable (dir, file, executable etc.). I was thinking maybe we can add a character again along with the color to the marks column so that it would also work in non-colored terminals and screenreaders. We can use | or o or maybe m for this purpose or just make it an option (e.g. markchar) so people can set it back to space char if they want.

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I have removed the previous implementation as part of #381. It's not a very good idea to directly print escape sequences when termbox is running. Maybe moving to tcell can make this possible. We should also get more feedback about this to make it useful.

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