In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device. The text cursor may be referred to as a caret in some cases. This term came about from older Unix systems that used the caret symbol as a text insertion indicator. The mouse cursor may be referred to as a mouse pointer , owing to its arrow shape on some systems.
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In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device. The text cursor may be referred to as a caret in some cases. This term came about from older Unix systems that used the caret symbol as a text insertion indicator. The mouse cursor may be referred to as a mouse pointer , owing to its arrow shape on some systems.
In most command line interfaces or text editors, the cursor is an underscore, a solid rectangle, or a vertical line, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered (the insertion point). In the old days of text mode displays, it was not possible to show a vertical bar between characters to show where the new text would be inserted, so an underscore or block cursor was used instead. In situations where a block was used the block was usually created by inverting the pixels of the character using the boolean math...
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