Alacritty: Cursor disappears when going to the beggining of the line

[paupalou]

Hello, alacritty is lovely, but i found annoying bug? with cursor movement. It disappears when user go to start of line, and it reappears if you go to end of line again.

This video shows it: https://asciinema.org/a/edvwg4ti2p5f4sxiqbx6gu3j6

environment : shell -> zsh

keys pressed:
bindkey '^A' beginning-of-line (CTRL-A)
bindkey '^E' end-of-line (CTRL-E)

Thanks for this great software

[maximbaz]

Interesting, to clarify what I understood from the video, after you jump with Ctrl+A the cursor is still there, the cursor becomes invisible only while you are typing the text, and reappears when you stopped typing something.

I couldn't repro it by the way.

[paupalou]

Hello @maximbaz , sorry if my instructions werent clear. I discovered some things:

• In bash i couldnt reproduce , works as expected, seems is something about zsh.
• Its not only about 'beggining-of-the-line' , if you move with your arrow keys to left the cursor disappears.
• Is related about zsh-completion, i have a module that colorize the command you typing in red if is not executable/findable in path , example "foobar", or green if is a correct command , ex : "ls -lha"/. If i disable this completion module all works correctly.
• In other terminals like urxvt or st this behaviour just does not happen.
• I have been able to fix it setting custom_cursor_colors to true and "playing" with cursor colors.

Anyways, seems is not alacritty related, otherwise is about my setup.

Thanks , you can close this

[suweller]

Leaving this here for anyone else encountering this issue. For me, it was triggered because I enabled cursor in: zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.

ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS=(main brackets pattern cursor)

By default it only contains main. When you disable cursor again you can prevent the bug from occurring.