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 [OP/mod]

2023-12-01 · 6 months ago

5 Later Comments ↓

🐦 wasolili [...] · 2023-12-01 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.

🚀 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 · 6 months ago