On the Mac there is no standard way to stop the cursor from blinking
when it's waiting for you to type in text so it's down to individual
applications to implement this. Anyway this could be done as an option
in TextWrangler? It is otherwise near perfect!

This is the sort of thing that doesn't bother most people but drives
some of us absolutely insane. I just find it a bit like having someone
poke me in the stomach every second - need my screen completely static
to be able to concentrate. I usually resolve it by highlighting
something whenever I'm not typing which is a bit of a hassle.

Another slightly less important feature request - I'm programming in
Python at the moment which is very fussy about things being indented
properly, either through spaces or tabs. One thing that would make
things easier is if it was very clear what was white space (tabs or
spaces) and what was just unused space (the space to the right of the
end of a line). This could be done with a subtle colour difference,
e.g. by making the background slightly yellow. So for example in this
text you would be able to tell that between the empty line between the
first and second paragraph has no spaces on it whereas between the
second and third there are a few spaces.

Tim

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On Feb 1, 7:08 am, Tim <tim.murraybro...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Another slightly less important feature request - I'm programming in
> Python at the moment which is very fussy about things being indented
> properly, either through spaces or tabs. One thing that would make
> things easier is if it was very clear what was white space (tabs or
> spaces) and what was just unused space (the space to the right of the
> end of a line). This could be done with a subtle colour difference,
> e.g. by making the background slightly yellow. So for example in this
> text you would be able to tell that between the empty line between the
> first and second paragraph has no spaces on it whereas between the
> second and third there are a few spaces.

One way to do this is to enable "Show Invisibles" and "Show Spaces",
either in Preferences->Editor Defaults or in the Text Options menu of
your document. It doesn't show a different background color, but it
symbols are displayed to indicate tabs, spaces, and other non-printing
characters.

I'm not sure about the cursor style question - it would be handy if
there were display options Terminal's.

Jim

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