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Caret becomes unmovable or invisible

#1

While I’m working in Sublime Text 4, the caret suddenly gets stuck in a certain row and column. The caret does not move anywhere anymore from there, but I can still type in other rows and columns in the opened text file when I click on those other rows and columns with my mouse. So there is some kind of invisible caret that has the position of where the new text is written, but the visible caret is useless and just stays there. If I close the tab and open it up again, it’s all back to normal.

I clearly remember: This problem did not exist with Sublime Text 3. It only came when I downloaded Sublime Text 4.

How can I make the caret not become unmovable or invisible?

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#2

Could it be this?

	// If true, when typing the mouse pointer/cursor will be hidden. Moving the
	// pointer will unhide it. This setting has no effect on macOS.
	"hide_pointer_while_typing": true,
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#3

Thanks for the reply! But no, this affects the mouse cursor. But it is the text selection caret thing that disappears.

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#5

I’m having the same problem. Using Sublime Text 4 Build 4113 on Fedora 34 Cinnamon spin (X11). It was there ever since I updated to Sublime Text 4 which was few days after it was publicly released, and it definitely wasn’t there in ST3. I never encountered it.

Github issue link from the above doesn’t seem to have any appliable information other than that the most effective (and possibly, in the Linux system, the only) solution is to restart the sublime. In fact it goes away when I close and reopen the tab. but nonetheless it happens once in a while and it’s something really annoying to have.

If it helps, I have 4 packages installed, excluding Package Control -

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@Habimm, do we have any packages in common?

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