#527 Caret options

[Anonymous]

As of 0.20, Geany's caret (AKA cursor) is drawn as a 1-pixel vertical bar in insert mode, and as a 2-pixel horizontal bar in overwrite mode, and there's an option to decide whether it blinks or not.

While this makes sense, I would prefer to be able to choose what kind of cursor (horizontal, vertical or block) shows in every mode and to decide how fast the cursor blinks. (Due to nostalgia, I prefer horizontal cursors for inserting, and block cursors for replacing, and I prefer a faster blinking cursor which is more easily visible and somehow encourages working faster.)

[Anonymous]

You can at least set it to thin vertical line or block caret using this configuration option[1], but it doesn't affect overwrite mode at all.

[1] http://git.geany.org/geany/tree/data/filetypes.common#n45

[Gabriele Svelto]

Having started using geany recently I've grown quite fond of it but I also miss the ability to use and underscore as the cursor. More options in this area would be welcome.

[Lex Trotman]

The cursor is drawn by the Scintilla editing component used by Geany. Geany exposes all the options it has available (see reply from Matthew above). Scintilla is a separate project, requests for features should be made to that project, www.scintilla.org.

[Gabriele Svelto]

Thanks for your reply, I've opened a feature request in the Scintilla tracker for this: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1037/