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I've accidentally changed the text cursor/caret in Visual Studio 2010 from the line to the one with the box that highlights the entire character and cannot find out how to change it back. Can anyone tell me how? Thanks!
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For those on a Mac (running Windows+Visual Studio with either VMWare Fusion or Parallels, for example), press the 0 (zero) key in the Mac keyboard number pad. For me, this translates to the Insert key which changed the fat (overwrite) cursor back to the normal (insert) cursor.
Use the text cursor indicatorSelect Start > Settings > Ease of Access > Text cursor. Select Turn on text cursor indicator. Adjust the Change text cursor indicator size slider until it looks like you want in the preview.
Applies to: Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio. Multi-caret editing allows you to add n number of insertion points at a single time.
Select Options from the Tools menu and in Environment folder, select Fonts and Colors. In Show settings for, select Text Editor. Change the font, size, display item, foreground and background colors.
Press the Insert Key
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To clarify there are two modes when using the editor: Insert and Overwrite.
Insert -- the "normal" thin caret that inserts characters as you type.
Overwrite -- the "fat" caret that will overwrite any previous characters as you type.
These two act the same when at the end of your document and you are just typing but go in the middle of some text and use them then you will see the difference.
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