Cursor disappears with syntax-highlighting plugin in the embedded terminal of Jetbrain IDEs

[wiesson]

Description

A Jetbrains IDE offers an embedded terminal which I use quite often. If I enable syntax-highlighting and use the arrow keys to navigate, the cursor disappears and will only be visible when it blinks/flashes.

I don't know if this is an error of prezto (because it does work perfectly without the embedded terminal) or from Jetbrains - I guess Jetbrains.
I'm trying to find help to isolate the problem to raise an issue within the Jetbrains Bugtracker.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable the syntax-highlighting plugin
2. Start a Jetbrains IDE and open the embedded Terminal
3. Use arrow keys to navigate

Versions

• Prezto commit: latest
• ZSH version: 5.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.0)
• OS information: OSX 10.13

I also asked on Stackoverflow but anybody has replied yet.

[belak]

Do you have any configuration of this module in your zpreztorc? I've seen in a few other places that sometimes adding the "cursor" highlighter can cause issues like this.

[wiesson]

I did not make any configuration besides uncommenting the available options like brackets, pattern (...). I also enabled a few modules like git and syntax-highlighting:

from .zpreztorc

zstyle ':prezto:load' pmodule \
  'environment' \
  'terminal' \
  'editor' \
  'history' \
  'directory' \
  'spectrum' \
  'utility' \
  'completion' \
  'git' \
  'syntax-highlighting' \ <--
  'prompt'

and within the # Syntax Highlighting config area:

zstyle ':prezto:module:syntax-highlighting' highlighters \
   'main' \
   'brackets' \
   'pattern' \
   'line' \
   'cursor' \
   'root'

That's it..

[belak]

Do you still see this issue if you disable the cursor highlighter? By default only the main highlighter is active... and I've seen a number of issues filed against the syntax highlighting module which seem similar to what you're seeing.

If you remove the 'cursor' \ line from the syntax highlighting config in your zpreztorc, this will disable the cursor highlighter and may fix this issue.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/docs/highlighters.md

zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting#171

[wiesson]

Yes, that did work! :) ❤️

For others, my enabled highlighters:

zstyle ':prezto:module:syntax-highlighting' highlighters \
   'main' \
   'brackets' \
   'pattern' \
   'line' \
   'root'

[dreamalligator]

I can confirm this worked for me too for the regular terminal emulator cursor.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.10
Release:	18.10
Codename:	cosmic

zsh --version
zsh 5.5.1 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)

[fuatto]

the same for me when in 'vi' editor - command mode, the cursor disappears, and removing the 'cursor' \ line in highlighters works great!

[liberninja]

I had the same issue and wasn't able to resolve it by taking out the cursor syntax highlighting option.
I was only able to get my cursor back after I disabled zstyle ':prezto:*:*' color 'yes'

I'd prefer to have colors, but it's better than nothing. Not sure why that happens. I'm using xfce terminal btw.