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Define/change the color for the mouse cursor in Notepad++

Hello,

I recently obtained EE assistance re how to configure Notepad++ to certain colors for the background and characters, etc. I thought that was all I needed but as it turns out, there's one more thing needing attention:

How do you define/change the color for the mouse cursor and not make fomatting changes to anything else?

I don't remember what the mouse color was prior to my recent computer crash and the subsequent need to rebuild, but now I've got a dark aqua or teal background color and the mouse cursor has taken on an almost identical color. As a result, the cursor is now almost impossible to see so I just need to change it to white. However, I can't see anywhere in the Settings > Style Configurator window to change only the mouse cursor color and nothing else.

Hopefully that's a quickie answer someone can give me.

Thanks

WeThotUWasAToad

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Amendment:

You know, looking at this more closely I'm wondering if the mouse cursor is simply invisible or hidden for some reason.

For example, I've got a dark background over which one line has dull orange characters and clicking anywhere in the row causes the background of the entire row to change to a slightly lighter color similar to the background. But despite having these three different colors in close proximity, I can't see the mouse cursor blinking at all.

The three colors are certainly close enough to each other that parts of the cursor would overlie all of them so I think if the cursor was any color at all, I would see part of it. However, there's nothing there at all.

Is there a setting that hides the mouse cursor?

Thanks

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Joe Winograd

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WeThotUWasAToad

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Thanks Joe. That's just what I needed — and more.

Joe Winograd

You're very welcome, Steve, I'm glad that does the trick for you. Regards, Joe