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Arsalan Mehmood
Arsalan Mehmood

Reputation: 1482

Android Studio : How to change default cursor style and behavior?

In Eclipse and many other editors we've same behavior for these Cursor styles:

Default Cursor in Eclipse Insert mode: The cursor inserts a character at its current position, forcing all characters past it one position further.

Insert Cursor in Eclipse Overtype mode : The cursor, when typing, overwrites any text that is present in the current location.

But In Android Studio, this cursor is behaving opposite

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This is very annoying for me, Can anyone tell me how to fix this behavior ?

(As we know in windows, We can toggle cursor behavior & style by pressing Insert key )

Upvotes: 26

Views: 29402

Answers (6)

Daley Nyae
Daley Nyae

Reputation: 153

Restart Android studio it should work

1 >> File
2 >> Exit 
3 >> Launch Android studio

It should work

Upvotes: 0

Alex Vasin
Alex Vasin

Reputation: 11

If nothing helped, then you can try this scheme: Tools -> Vim Emulator (disable the check mark)

Upvotes: 1

Nav12
Nav12

Reputation: 151

Other than the answers there is another case which could lead to this situation. I accidently installed IdeaVIM plugin to my IDE, and that caused it to have cursor in overtype mode. Disabling that plugin solved my problem.

To disable a plugin go to File -> Settings -> Plugins -> Installed and then uncheck the plugin you want to disable.

Upvotes: 1

Javaid Iqbal
Javaid Iqbal

Reputation: 157

press the insert button once. It will be fine for every type of programming editors like Android Studio, Dev C++ etc.

Upvotes: 12

Othniel
Othniel

Reputation: 181

There are two ways to do this 1. The first is to go through the settings to change it That is, File >> Settings >> Editor >> Appearance >> Use block caret ( should be unchecked )

  1. On Windows press the fn + ins

Upvotes: 8

Arsalan Mehmood
Arsalan Mehmood

Reputation: 1482

At last I found solution of my problem :)

So, following is the fix for it:

File - > Settings -> Editor (IDE Settings) -> Appearance-> Then uncheck Use Block caret

Use block Caret

Upvotes: 24

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