This seems like it would be a small, almost trivial thing to add, but as a developer with a severe visual impairment (read: legally blind), it would make things so much easier. The recently added blinking helps a lot, but the ability to turn on a block-style cursor would be even better. Thanks!
Can we please have an option for a block cursor?
While I know itās not exactly what youāre looking for, you can try setting caret_style to āwideā in your Global File Preferences
I would support this, I run sublime text using vintage mode and I have alot of problems finding the caret sometimes
I am just starting to use SublimeText myself and very quickly became annoyed with the lack of this feature. I have thrown together a quick plugin the mimics it as best I can by using region highlights. You can grab it here:
Excellent, thank you! I donāt use vintage mode, so Iāve modified it a bit to work everywhere, which was very easy to do.
Thanks a million. This makes the cursor so much easier to see!
I wish it blinked, but thatās kind of ridiculous functionality to ask for in a plug-in. Hopefully a block cursor style will be added to the official release in the future.
+1 for block cursor.
Using the normal cursor in vintage mode can get very confusing.
Specially since in cmd mode itās a underscore and when next to a bracket you get double underscores and you have no clue which is the cursor.
Is there some place to vote for this feature? SublimeBlockCursor is a great plugin but looks a tiny bit off from what Iām used from MacVim.
i wish you had never created that plugin because it merely existing at all is a reason for the developer to consign this awesome request to the bit bucket.
please add a native block cursor. micro thin vertical line hiding between two chars is VERY difficult to see sometimes.
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In general Iād love to have more python-hooks in sublime text. Just give us a method we can hook into to change how the cursor is drawn. Outline-block-cursor-with-red-top-border here i come.
[quote=ākellishaverā]Excellent, thank you! I donāt use vintage mode, so Iāve modified it a bit to work everywhere, which was very easy to do.
Thanks a million. This makes the cursor so much easier to see!
I wish it blinked, but thatās kind of ridiculous functionality to ask for in a plug-in. Hopefully a block cursor style will be added to the official release in the future.[/quote]
I am not a python programmer, I wonder if I could get a copy of your changes for non vintage mode?
If you add both of the following to āSettings - Userā, you can get it be be blinky and wide at the same time:
[code]ācaret_styleā: āphaseā
āwide_caretā: true[/code]
Check the āSettings - Defaultā and search for ācaret_styleā for more options on the rate and style of blinking. The only other thing Iāve thought to do is alter the caret color in your preferred color scheme. I have mine set to some horrendously bright color so that it always galares out of the monitor.
Iāve set the thing as wide as I can, but like a few others above, I could really go for a block cursor. Iām not a programmer; I use Sublime Text (and Komodo Edit, which is uglier but very easy to configure for a non-programmer) to write and prep copy for online publication, and after a long day, that skinny little supermodel cursor is just too damned hard to find.
Thanks for building an interesting (and pretty) editor.
TC
[quote=ākellishaverā]Excellent, thank you! I donāt use vintage mode, so Iāve modified it a bit to work everywhere, which was very easy to do.
Thanks a million. This makes the cursor so much easier to see!
I wish it blinked, but thatās kind of ridiculous functionality to ask for in a plug-in. Hopefully a block cursor style will be added to the official release in the future.[/quote]
I donāt know much about python. Can you share the modified code for using it everywhere to me? thx
[quote=āsingwā]
[quote=ākellishaverā]Excellent, thank you! I donāt use vintage mode, so Iāve modified it a bit to work everywhere, which was very easy to do.
Thanks a million. This makes the cursor so much easier to see!
I wish it blinked, but thatās kind of ridiculous functionality to ask for in a plug-in. Hopefully a block cursor style will be added to the official release in the future.[/quote]
I donāt know much about python. Can you share the modified code for using it everywhere to me? thx[/quote]
Remove lines 22,23,24
if view.settings().get('is_widget') or not view.settings().get('command_mode'):
view.erase_regions('SublimeBlockCursorListener')
return
So that It only does
self.show_block_cursor(view)
In the file:
github.com/netpro2k/SublimeBloc ā¦ kCursor.py