microsoft / microsoft/terminal
👁🍬 Smooth cursor animation/transition when moving
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
# Description of the new feature/enhancement
Cursor should transition pixel-wise within a specified amount of milliseconds from one point to the other, whether
by typing or clicking to a new position/cell on the viewport.
# Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Preferably user customizable in terminal profile settings.
{ ..., smoothCursorTransitionDuration: 90 } or smoothCursorTransition: true or false perhaps.
## Examples



Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing cursor rendering and movement in the terminal viewport, then inspect how terminal profile settings are defined and applied. The work is done when cursor movement from typing or clicking can transition pixel-wise over a configurable duration, with an option to enable or disable the behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100