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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    9 months ago

    It tells you where you are, and it blinks so you can find it easily, and know it’s not a character.

    Imagine editing a document without it: you’d have to start typing to find out where your text is going to go. How many times have you clicked your mouse pointer at the beginning of a word, but then realized your cursor was after the first character of that word? You knew that because the cursor was blinking at you.