Caret (text cursor) animation does not work as intended within conhost (Windows 10)
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Description
The caret blink animation is supposed to reset whenever the carets position changes to make following it easier. However, in conhost the blink animation continues, erratically, during caret movement, which makes it extremely difficult or impossible to follow the caret.
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing caret movement and blinking in conhost on Windows 10, then trace the editor's caret-position and blink-reset handling. Done means the blink animation reliably resets whenever the caret moves and remains easy to follow during movement.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100