Different color of cursor in Math and Text Modes

[Joel Kulesza]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 1:02 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubin73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/9/22 12:30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Le 09/10/2022 à 17:28, Rodolfo Oviedo a écrit :
> >> Hi Jean-Marc,
> >>
> >> Thank you for your reply!
> >
> > You are welcome. Please keep lyx-devel in copy, it is better to share
> > our thoughts with everyone.
> >
> >> I agree that it is enough. However, I think it is not optimum,
> >> especially because the corners are too thin to notice without a
> >> conscious effort to spot them. That is why I think that allowing a
> >> change in the color of the cursor would be helpful.
> >
> > What is your setting (OS, screen) ? Do you have a HiDpi monitor ?
> > Would it be better to have thicker corners?
> >
> >> If a set of four corners were substituted by a thin square, that
> >> would be immediately noticeable. I suppose the developers did not use
> >> squares because they found them too obtrusive.
> >
> > Right, or we could change the background color to be more noticeable.
> I'll vote for that. Sometimes it's a wee bit hard to tell whether I am
> in a subscript/superscript, or in the "owner" of the
> subscript/superscript, or what. For example, if you enter $\sum_1^n$ and
> then mouse between the subscript, the superscript and the summation
> sign, the corners never change. If we could change the background for
> just the "relevant portion" (say, the portion subject to destruction if
> I hit the backspace key), that would be helpful.
>

Colleagues,

Another area where I hope we can consider background coloring of these
types of items is based on whether links get resolved.  That is, a broken
cross reference or "citation not found" being colored differently will help
resolve the breakage.

Thank you,
Joel
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