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I just upgraded my Intellij IDEA to version 14, but I have the problem that my cursor in the editor window is acting "different". It starts of in a sort of protected mode, which looks like the insert mode but it isn't, where I can't insert anything. After pressing some keys like a it changes back to normal except that sometimes it goes in a selection mode and by that I mean if I hit backspace instead of deleting the character as expected it just selects/highlights it. I find this behavior really annoying and I hope one of you can help me.
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Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Intellij 14.0
Please ask if i can provide any additional information which might be helpful.
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You can turn off cursor blinking by going to Settings, Editor, General, Appearance and untick Caret blinking .
Case 1: block cursor is set be default. Case 2: you are in Overwrite mode. Assign shortcut to Preferences -> Keymap -> Toggle Insert/Overwrite action and press shortcut.
If it has no keyboard shortcut, or you can't be bothered to remember it, you can toggle it by pressing Command/Ctrl + Shift + A , type "overwrite" in the popup, which should bring up the "Toggle Insert/Overwrite" option, and hit enter.
Disabling/Uninstalling the ideaVim plugin seemed to fix the problem for me. The plugin description hints that you can configure it via a configuration script in ~/.ideavimrc, which there may also be options to get "normal" behavior with the plugin installed but I haven't looked into that though because the plugin doesn't seems all that useful to me. I hope this helps other people to fix their issues with IntelliJ 14.
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