Colour inversion for terminal cursor

[Utkarsh-khambra]

Abstract

When cursor shape is block and cursor is moved over to some character then cursor completely hides the character making it unreadable.
Currently this happens in contour

and this is in alacritty

Motivation

Whenever cursor is moved to some character, the background cell color and text color can be inverted. Alacritty also does this by allowing to set

  cursor:
    text: CellBackground
    cursor: CellForeground

in config file

Specification

[christianparpart]

Oh yes, let me fix that ASAP. thanks for pushing me. :-)

[Utkarsh-khambra]

Thanks :-)

[christianparpart]

  cursor:
    text: CellBackground
    cursor: CellForeground

I really struggled in accepting the naming scheme of Alacritty, as much as I tried to be in line with their naming scheme to not confuse users, but cursor.cursor doesn't sound quite right. I'm not saying I found the best solution though, but here we go. (PR should be merged soon).

[christianparpart]

@Utkarsh-khambra this is how you can configure it:

contour/src/contour/contour.yml

Lines 277 to 291 in a008f13

	# Mandates the color of the cursor and potentially overridden text.
	#
	# The color can be specified in RGB as usual, plus
	# - CellForeground: Selects the cell's foreground color.
	# - CellBackground: Selects the cell's background color.
	cursor:
	# Specifies the color to be used for the actual cursor shape.
	#
	# Default: CellForeground
	default: CellForeground
	# Specifies the color to be used for the characters that would
	# be covered otherwise.
	#
	# Default: CellBackground
	text: CellBackground

While now being merged to master, CI should have created binary packages already also. Otherwise, I think it's time to make another point release. Enjoy.

[Utkarsh-khambra]

Thanks it works great now :)