xtermjs/xterm.js

Cursor is not visible on inverted text

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#2,064 opened on May 11, 2019

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Description

Here's what it looks like in vscode (before and after 3.13, dom or canvas renderer), it happens in demo the same way (viewing italic text in a markdown file on vim):

Terminal.app:

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Investigate the cursor rendering logic in xterm.js, focusing on how colors are inverted for selected text and how the cursor appearance is computed.
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