Non-blinking cursor in normal mode

[gerardmrk]

I am so, so sorry for creating an issue for this, but I was wondering if it's possible to make the cursor not blink when in "normal" mode (similar to the vim-mode package in Atom). It is weirdly unsettling to have it blink both in visual and normal, I tried getting used to it but to no avail. The default user settings does not give the option of toggling "visible" for normal either. Thanks in advance!

[johnfn]

Hehe, I dunno why you're sorry about making an issue 😃

I should have fixed this with #361. Sadly, it's not perfect, as I don't believe VSCode currently offers a nonblinking native cursor, so we just hack it in ourselves.

Turn it on by putting "vim.useSolidBlockCursor": true, into your user settings.

[timwis]

Just in case anyone else gets here from search, the above config option no longer works. Instead, you can use:

"editor.cursorBlinking": "solid"

[dagolinuxoid]

@timwis, thanks! It makes an animation to behave statically for all states, but I am ok with it.

[jyj407]

I figured out that you can change the settings of vscode. File -> Preference -> Settings -> Cursor, choose Solid if you prefer it not to blink. That works for me.