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Increase the caret cursor size in VS Code

Is there a way to increase the size for the caret cursor in VS Code? I'm on MacOS.

I find it hard to see:

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Musa Avatar asked Oct 29 '17 20:10

Musa


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In settings.json try the following:

"editor.cursorStyle": "line",
"editor.cursorWidth": 4    

I found I could change the width from 1 to 7 and the cursor would get larger or smaller. Setting it to 0 did not have the effect of hiding it.

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S.Mason Avatar answered Nov 02 '22 23:11

S.Mason