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A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
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Change color of current character when using block cursor #344

Closed nbeaver closed 6 years ago

nbeaver commented 6 years ago

This is a feature request to alter the color of the currently selected character to the background color so that the selected character is more visible when selected by the block cursor. Here's an example to show what I mean:

example

Current behavior is on top, desired behavior is below.

Related links:

https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/5

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/673489

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10100

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/436471/invert-cursor-color-in-simple-terminal