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Comment by 🐙 norayr

Re: "do you like square cursors or pipe like cursors? should the..."

In: s/retrocomputing

i guess i just like square cursors for aesthetics or because i enjoyed those on pravetz-8d (oric atmos bulgarian clone).

but recently i notice that exact position of pipe cursor is not always clear to me, not sure if it relates to the character on the left of it or right of it.

🐙 norayr

Dec 01 · 4 weeks ago

2 Later Comments ↓

🐦 wasolili · Dec 01 at 04:00:

I like the square cursor when I'm editing code because it's easier to spot, but for general text fields I prefer a pipe.

🐉 gyaradong · Dec 06 at 02:39:

vi-wise, you need both block (signifies character) and line (signifies insertion point). I think you can live without one at the cost of redundancy or missing information. I tend to prefer missing information even though it's probably stupid. I'm agnostic to the blink.

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🌒 s/retrocomputing

do you like square cursors or pipe like cursors? should the cursor blink?

💬 norayr · 8 comments · Nov 30 · 4 weeks ago