White Cursor Atom Package
Provides a white I-bar cursor in editor views for use with dark backgrounds.
🚨 Unmaintained
Since atom/atom#8663 which was merged in Atom v1.0.12, this package is no longer necessary. I'm leaving it available as an example of how to build an Atom package.
Use
By default the white cursor is always enabled. However, if you set the white-cursor.enabled setting to detect, then when Atom is loaded or any time you change the themes, the White Cursor package attempts to determine whether you have a dark syntax theme set. If so, it enables the white cursor. You can override its autodetection for the current session by using the White Cursor: Toggle command from the Command Palette.
Commands
white-cursor:toggle— Toggles the white cursor on or off.
Configuration
white-cursor.enabled— Accepts one of three values:always— White cursor is always enabled (default)detect— Detects whether a dark syntax is being used and enables the white cursor accordinglynever— White cursor is always disabled
white-cursor.darkThemes— An array of theme package names (lowercased and hyphenated) that should be treated as dark syntax themes even if they do not contain bothdarkandsyntaxin the name
Styles
The .white-cursor-image mixin is available in case there are situations where you need a white I-bar cursor in some areas of the UI even when you're using a light theme. For example, with the Term2 package you can add the following to your styles.less:
@import "packages/white-cursor/stylesheets/white-cursor";
.terminal {
.white-cursor-image;
}