In jVI for Netbeans, the cursor won't appear

Question

Depending on the font I use, I might see a quarter of a cursor (lower right rectangle not flashing) in the wrong place, or no cursor at all. Still, the line I'm on highlights and the column number is displayed in the lower right.

I've tried a mix of fixed-width fonts at a mix of sizes (11-14), including the default Monospace, MacVim's Menlo, the awful Courier, and another q-a site's suggested Consolas.

Any ideas how to get the cursor to show up would be great. Alternate ways to get Vi keybindings in NetBeans also acceptable, though it seems jVi is the most current / active effort.

NetBeans 7.1.2

EDIT: Image showing no cursor with highlighting

Image showing actually two partial cursors, which I'd never seen before:

Answer 1

There is a problem with the Mac Retina, which is like this problem. The latest jVi release has a workaround, you need to turn on the option
Tools > Options > jViConfig > Platform > MacRetinaCursorXorBug

Answer 2

I had the same problem in Netbeans 8.0.2. Workaround for this is to disable following option: Tools->Options->jVi config->platform->use modal frame

I found the solution here which solves other problems with cursor too. I hope this will help you.

Cheers

Answer 3

ubuntu - 14.04 java 1.7.0_121 netbeans - 8.2 jvi - 1.5.4

i had the same issue and 'use model frame' was already enabled. Enabling 'MacRetinaCursorXorBug' fixed the issue. i have set the frequency of the cursor to 500 to be on the safer side.