Non-blinking cursor only for Vim mode
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Description
Vim for VS Code is great, thanks a lot for your work! I use it quite often. However, I sometimes switch to VS Code's 'standard' editing mode (without the Vim functionalities).
For such use cases in standard editing mode, I would like to keep the blinking cursor. I.e. would it be possible to implement a setting for blinking/non-blinking cursors specifically for Vim, such that one would not have to change VS Code's general settings when switching between editing modes?
This relates to issues #352 and #361. Maybe I am also completely on the wrong path here and such an implementation is just not possible with VS Code (and "vim.useSolidBlockCursor" was deprecated on purpose). If that is the case, sorry for the unnecessary work caused by this issue.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing vim.useSolidBlockCursor setting and related issues #352 and #361, then check whether VS Code allows cursor blinking to be controlled specifically by Vim mode. The work is done when standard editing retains its blinking cursor while Vim mode can use a separate blinking or non-blinking setting, or the issue documents that this is not possible.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100