lose cursor

[Jack Rosenbloom]

Inside an editor window, if I switch to overwrite mode by pressing the "insert" key, the cursor disappears. Overwrite works correctly if I can keep track of cursor location. After switching back to insert mode by pressing the "insert button again, the cursor is still invisable. Changing focus to a different window and back restores visable cursor. Note, I do NOT have the cursor line highlighted. This is 100% repeatable.

Jack

[Jack Rosenbloom]

After I closed all editor windows from the close all cmd in the window menu and then re-opened some windows, the problem is gone. Sorry I didn't think to try that before I reported the issue. I would ignore this thread.

Jack

[jussij]

Hi Jack,

Inside an editor window, if I switch to overwrite mode by pressing the "insert" key, the cursor disappears.

Unfortunately this disappeaing cursor problem has been in Zeus for many years. Over the years I have personally seen this bug on several occasions, but to this day I have not been able to find a way to consistently reproduce the bug

After I closed all editor windows from the close all cmd in the window menu and then re-opened some windows, the problem is gone. Sorry I didn't think to try that before I reported the issue. I would ignore this thread.

No need to apologies. What you are seeing is definitely a bug in Zeus, so I am very happy that you took the time to report it. The only reason this bug has been ignored thus far is that it is so hard to reproduce

But as you have seen there are several workarounds

If I recall correctly, another workaround is moving the focus away from Zeus to some other application and then moving the focus back to Zeus.

Cheers Jussi