>> >> Investigation of #6454 revealed that we are blinking the cursor even >> when it is off screen, causing recalculations of paragraph metrics, >> which may have weird side effects---such as #6454. Can someone please
>> stop the cursor from blinking when it isn't on the screen? At least >> most of the time? I know nothing about this sort of thing. >> >This seems to do it. Anyone know a reason not to do this check here? > I don't know a reason not to do it, but you probably know my opinion that it is just hiding other problems. One is that determining whether the cursor is at the RTL boundary or not should not be dependent on the view and the breaking of the paragraphs. But well, that has been introduced by my own commit, so.... There is no need to get it perfect right now. I'm glad you helped figuring out where the problem was and that it gets fixed in the next release. Vincent
