Why is the caret made, and why does it blink?

weebkent@ani.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 29 points –

It's the vertical line that blinks in text boxes and documents when you edit. Other than that I don't know much about it.

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It exists so that you know where a character will appear when you press a key on the keyboard.

It blinks because it's hard to find a line on a page of lines.

I realise what sub we're on, but this is pushing it...

...sub we’re on (...) this is pushing it ...

Lol ! Could be on explain like I'm 5

More important reason for it blinking is so you know it isn't a character |

That's more or less what I said, isn't it?

I mean so you literally don't confuse it with a character, as opposed to making it noticeable in a long string of characters. Both are important.