<div dir="ltr"><div>Would it be enough to increase the frequency of the blinking of the caret. Seems to me that a frenetically blinking cursor would be more easily seen.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Though TextMate doesn't respect the following system settings, maybe it should?</div><div><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.8em;padding:10px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;max-height:300px;overflow:auto"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-height:300px;overflow:auto;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff -float 0.1 </font></code></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.8em;padding:10px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;max-height:300px;overflow:auto"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-height:300px;overflow:auto;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 0.1</font></code></pre></div><div><br></div><div>This comes from the following SuperUser post, which is actually about disabling the blinking, but seemed relevant any way.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://superuser.com/questions/466660/how-to-disable-blinking-caret-when-editing-text-in-os-x" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/466660/how-to-disable-blinking-caret-when-editing-text-in-os-x</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also some of this issue could be helped by, yet another, request for the "highlight current line" feature.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Novitzky Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pnovitzky@gmail.com" target="_blank">pnovitzky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So far I coloured the vertical bar caret with a contrast colour against the background, but even this is not ideal. Especially if the window loses focus...<br>
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Thanks though for the suggestions. I appreciate it a lot.<br>
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Patience is the art of hoping. ;)<br>
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Peter<br>
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On 17 Jul 2015, at 16:37 pm, Rob McBroom <<a href="mailto:mailinglist0@skurfer.com">mailinglist0@skurfer.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 17 Jul 2015, at 10:47, Novitzky Peter wrote:<br>
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>> Thanks for your advice for using the shortcuts. However, they are not really what is desirable here.<br>
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> I know what you ultimately want. I don’t know if you’ll get it next week, or never.<br>
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> I was just offering suggestions for things you can do today.<br>
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