Vim Cursor shape stays underscore. Not able to change it

[ponegan]

• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)
  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.125]

• What you're doing and what's happening / What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
  I'm using xterm-256color.
  I had been tried to change the shape of my vim cursor. I tried lots of different configuration for cursor shape (to be block) but none of them works as I put them in my .vimrc.

For example I tried some of these:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Configuring_the_cursor

In the terminal I was able to change the shape of cursor to block by selecting 'large' in property as @zadjii-msft suggested in #1253. But the same trick won't work for vim. Well.... it will work at the moment I set it to 'large'. But it will reset back to underscore every time I open another file.

As this:

Anyone got a good approach on this cursor configuration?

[parkovski]

I don't think this is possible right now - the console needs to understand a cursor escape, like ^[[n q with n from 0-6, which it doesn't. The only way I know to change it right now is with console APIs that are not available within WSL. Hopefully this functionality will get implemented soon.

Edit - there may be a hacky way to do this right now. You can write a small Windows C program that calls SetConsoleCursorInfo, and set up vim's cursor sizing commands to run that program. I think that would work, but no guarantees.

[bitcrazed]

This issue was moved to microsoft/terminal#68