Make cursor instantly visible after jumping with arrows keys
While navigating text with arrows (or Ctrl/Cmd + arrows), especially in short word clusters, something like these:
mon-sun: 10:00–19:00
break: 13:00–14:00
it's quite hard to understand where cursor has landed after last jump, because cycle of blinking seem to stay the same or even elongate!
There's a second after jump until cursor is finally drawn.
Could you please add or fix it in such a way that cursor is immediately visible after any arrow jump?
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Jonathan Bowman
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AI 21.1.0
Recreate by making a field with text in it, and then use the arrow keys to move your cursor to different positions.
The initial state of the cursor is "off", so each time you move it you see nothing, which means you have no visual feedback as to where your cursor position is while you move it. You have to stop and wait for the first blink, which is contrary to how it works in all other software, on every OS, since the dawn of computers.
Please help and thank you.
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Anonymous
commented
Hey Jonothan Bowman,
You are having the same issue as us over on another Bug Title. Come on over and follow that one with us. Let's all band together and make some noise on this time wasting issue.
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Jonathan Bowman
commented
If you have text and you use the arrows to move through characters, the insertion point continues to blink. This isn't how it works by default anywhere else in OSX, and means that you either count key presses and characters to keep track of where it is, or you wait for it to flash to see where you currently are.
This slows down workflow and breaks user expectations by deviating from OS behavior.