no-soft-cursor

pi-no-soft-cursor

Remove the reverse-video block cursor from pi's editor. Your terminal's native blinking cursor still shows the insertion point — just without the highlighted character block drawn on top.

Install

pi install npm:pi-no-soft-cursor

What it does

Pi's text editor renders a "soft cursor": the character under the cursor is shown in reverse video (a highlighted block). Some terminals already show a blinking cursor via the hardware cursor marker, making the soft cursor redundant or visually noisy.

This extension:

1. Strips the soft cursor — patches editor rendering to remove the last reverse-video span from each rendered line (the one the editor uses for the cursor block).
2. Still works with editor-overriding extensions — if another extension installs its own editor component, this package wraps that editor too instead of fighting to be the last setEditorComponent() call.
3. Forces the hardware cursor on — pi has a "Show hardware cursor" setting that is off by default. This extension enables it unconditionally so the terminal's native cursor is always visible.

Note: With this extension active, pi's "Show hardware cursor" setting has no effect — the hardware cursor is always enabled.

Setup

After installing, reload pi with /reload or restart it.

Configuration

None. Install and it works.