Smear cursor - #16159

tested with kitty and worked

I'm using and enjoying this with Ghostty as well. Just one curiosity I noticed: The cursor renders a bit funny when it's placed on a tab character, which spans multiple cells. The upper cursor is the secondary one, the lower cursor is the primary one. The hardware cursor seems to render a single cell with a different color than the rest of the cells belonging to the tab character.

The problem seems to be that the "hardware" cursor doesn't get the theme's color for the cursor. This problem is most pronounced on light themes. A white cursor on white background is invisible. Should be a blocking issue IMO.

The problem seems to be that the "hardware" cursor doesn't get the theme's color for the cursor. This problem is most pronounced on light themes. A white cursor on white background is invisible. Should be a blocking issue IMO.

You’ll see this issue already with bar/underline cursors. Terminal cursors use the terminal’s foreground colour, Helix can’t theme them.

I believe this PR forces an unthemable cursor on all users, it will always draw the terminal cursor overlaid on Helix’s block cursor? That’s why #16163 introduces block-hardware, making it opt-in.