Insert cursor into a line rather than have it on top of the selected character

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Context

From the Canute Console Braille display development team.

The Canute Console is a 360 6-dot Braille display running Raspian (Debian based). The Braille display reflects the last 9 lines of the terminal. We use Micro as the primary text editor.

Because Braille has no option for background/foreground colour (common terminal way of showing the cursor), and because our display is 6-dot not 8-dot (the extra bottom two dots being the common refreshable Braille display method of showing cursor position), the cursor essentially blocks out the character it is on.

So rather than a string like this having the cursor visible over the letter P, it obscures the letter P (our default cursor shape is all six dots, represented here by the "=" sign, but it doesn't matter what cursor shape it is, it always obscures the letter underneath):

Hello, said Peter becomes, Hello, said =eter

Its not the end of the world but there are circumstances where it is far from ideal.

Proposed solution

An option in Micro configuration to insert the cursor as a character, therefore to move the letters over. So:

Hello, said Peter becomes, Hello, said =Peter

This will presumably have some consequences for line wrapping and so I can see it may not be trivial.