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Hide "real" caret during visual mode #9007

Open musjj opened 2 months ago

musjj commented 2 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It looks like during normal mode, the plugin simulates a fake(?) caret, but the real caret stays visible:

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With editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation set to on, this becomes really apparent and distracting:

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Describe the solution you'd like I believe that this could be solved by simply temporarily making the "real" caret invisible, by setting it to a transparent color. The color can then be reset afterwards.

Describe alternatives you've considered I tried to figure out a way to hack it from the user's end, but I couldn't figure it out.

J-Fields commented 6 days ago

I believe that this could be solved by simply temporarily making the "real" caret invisible, by setting it to a transparent color. The color can then be reset afterwards.

I don't think this is feasible. It would require modifying settings every time we enter/exit Visual mode - this is quite disruptive, as users of statusBarColors know.