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Better Xcode ibeam cursor

Better i-beam (text cursor) for Xcode for dark background / light text color themes.

Directions:

The easy way
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/egold/better-xcode-ibeam-cursor/master/install.sh | bash 
The manual way
  1. Clone this repository (or fork it if you want to customize the tiff yourself!)
  2. Create a backup of /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Resources/DVTIbeamCursor.tiff
  3. Copy (sudo cp) the tiff to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Resources/DVTIbeamCursor.tiff
  4. Restart Xcode

You should now have an i-beam that is more easy to see on a dark or black background.

Before:

Original Xcode Ibeam

After:

Improved Xcode Ibeam

Background

I find it more enjoyable to code with the Midnight color theme in Xcode, but found myself always hunting for the cursor, especially on a large monitor. I found a pretty good TIFF someone created, so I cleaned up a bit of the outline thickness and posted it here!

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Better i-bar (text cursor) for Xcode for dark background / light text color themes.

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