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Caret is nearly impossible to see on some dark themes
See original GitHub issueDescribe the bug When using some dark code themes, the cursor stays black and can be hard to see.
On other themes it becomes thicker and matches the colour of my -> in python (e.g. see One Dark below)
Seen on:
- 3024 Night
- Blackboard
- Base 16 (Dark)
- Cobalt
- Duotone
- Hopscotch
- Lucario
- Material
- Monokai
- Panda
- Paraiso
- Shades of Purple
- Solarized (Dark)
- Tomorrow Night
- Twilight
- Verminal
- VSCode
- Zenburn
To Reproduce
- Pick one of the above dark themes
- Try find your cursor
Expected behavior Cursor should be inverted to the background colour
Screenshots
Monokai:
One Dark:
Info (please complete the following information):
- OS: Linux
- Browser: Chrome
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)
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it seems that custom themes may still have this problem, I created my on gruvbox theme for python and the cursor is hardly visible on a black background.
here is an example https://carbon.now.sh/OlRFKVSTbxFIz2M7a4zq
Thanks! 🙌 https://github.com/dawnlabs/carbon/releases/tag/3.9.29