tput civissuccessfully hides the cursor.tput cvvisshould unhide it, but it doesn't.Any idea what the problem might be?
Hide and unhide cursor with tput
terminal;escape characters;tput
In the ncurses terminal database, cvvis is used as documented in the terminfo manual page:   cursor_visible            cvvis  vs   make cursor very                                         visibleand if there is no difference between normal and very visible, the cvvis capability is usually omitted.  The feature is used in curs_set:The curs_set routine sets the cursor state  to  invisible,  normal, or very visible for visibility equal to 0, 1, or 2  respectively.  If the terminal supports the visibility re-quested, the previous cursor state is returned; otherwise,  ERR is returned.The terminfo(5) manual page also saysIf the cursor needs to be made more  visible  than  normal  when it is not on the bottom line (to make, for example, a  non-blinking underline into an easier  to  find  block  or  blinking underline) give this sequence as cvvis.  If there  is a way to make the  cursor  completely  invisible,  give  that as civis.  The capability cnorm should be given which  undoes the effects of both of these modes.Some terminal descriptions may (incorrectly) equate cvvis and cnorm, since some emacs configurations assume that cvvis is always set.