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Comment by 🐉 gyaradong

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

In: s/retrocomputing

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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2023-12-06 · 2 months ago

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🚀 stack · Jan 03 at 18:50:

I am happy with a few blinks on motion, then, a steady block

🧩 ERnsTL · Jan 03 at 20:01:

TBH I just noticed to have a square cursor that blinks slowly.

Ah, remember now. I used to have a vertical line cursor in the past, but when there is lots of text on the screen, it was difficult to spot, which required a faster blink rate - which was irritating to me when I had focus on the cursor already.

So i settled for the square (well, rectangle) cursor with a slow blink.

🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 18 at 22:59:

Blinky bar. I don't need a constant reminder of how wide a character is, only where the next character is going to start.

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

💬 norayr [mod] · 11 comments · 2023-11-30 · 2 months ago