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Type: <bBug</bthe set to the cursor around with arrows. Animation is there. something. Animation is not there. VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.75.0-insider (, 2022-12-12T05:36:38.306Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 22.1.0 Modes: Sandboxed: Yes <details<summarySystem Info</summary </details<details<summaryExtensions (42)</summaryExtensionVersion ------ better-comments3.0.2 vscode-nginx-conf0.1.3 ng-template15.0.2 vscode-tailwindcss0.9.1 better-toml0.3.2 npm-intellisense1.4.3 vscode-eslint2.3.0 vscode-quick-select0.2.9 xml2.5.1 gitlens13.1.1 scroll-faster0.2.2 prettier-vscode9.10.3 vscode-jest-runner0.4.59 auto-rename-tag0.1.10 shell-format7.2.2 macros1.2.1 vscode-pull-request-github0.57. vscode-postfix-ts1.11.3 Angular213.0.0 center-editor-window2.3.0 graphql-for-vscode1.15.3 vscode-clangd0.1.23 ts-error-translator0.5.1 dotenv1.0.1 vscode-docker1.23.1 black-formatter2022.7. isort2022.9. python2022.21. vscode-pylance2022.12.21 vscode-typescript-next5.0. vsliveshare1.0.5788 prisma4.7.1 vscode-yaml1.10.1 better-pageup-pagedown0.0.1 rust-analyzer0.4.1316 vs-code-prettier-eslint5.0.4 justfile2.1.0 vscode-scss-formatter2.4.4 shellcheck0.29.1 vscode-input-sequence0.2.0 errorlens3.6.0 vscode-lldb1.8.1 (1 theme extensions excluded) </details<!-- generated by issue reporter --
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This was an intentional change to disable the animation when typing/deleting. See
okay, that makes perfect sense. closing.
Also having the same issue. Has there been a fix?
We have intentionally removed animating the cursor when typing for which explicitly asks us to do that. But I think some folks actually prefered the old behavior of animating also when typing?
Yes, I love the animating when typing.
A good common ground could be that it becomes a setting to also have the caret animated while typing
I've pushed a change where there will be 3 possible values for : off: Smooth caret animation is disabled explicit: Smooth caret animation is enabled only when the user moves the cursor with an explicit gesture. This should cover users who don't want it like in issue on: Smooth caret animation is always enabled
thank you for the changes. I noticed now cursorSmoothCaretAnimation is turned on by default and can't be turned off at all. Looks like a bug.
see which is already fixed.

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text: _cursorBlinkingStyleFromString, { description: nls.localize('cursorBlinking', "Control the cursor animation style.") } )), <del> cursorSmoothCaretAnimation: register(new EditorBooleanOption( EditorOption.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation, 'cursorSmoothCaretAnimation', false, { description: nls.localize('cursorSmoothCaretAnimation', "Controls whether the smooth caret animation should be enabled.") } </del> <ins> cursorSmoothCaretAnimation: register(new EditorStringEnumOption( EditorOption.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation, 'cursorSmoothCaretAnimation', 'off' as 'off' | 'explicit' | 'on', ['off', 'explicit', 'on'] as const, { enumDescriptions: [ nls.localize('cursorSmoothCaretAnimation.off', "Smooth caret animation is disabled."), nls.localize('cursorSmoothCaretAnimation.explicit', "Smooth caret animation is enabled only when the user moves the cursor with an explicit gesture."), nls.localize('cursorSmoothCaretAnimation.on', "Smooth caret animation is always enabled.") ], description: nls.localize('cursorSmoothCaretAnimation', "Controls whether the smooth caret animation should be enabled.") } </ins> )), cursorStyle: register(new EditorEnumOption( EditorOption.cursorStyle, 'cursorStyle',