How do I change cursor from a block back to | ?

Hi Paul,

Have you looked under File > Settings > Editor > General > Appearance?
There is a check box for 'Use block caret' - maybe yours is checked?

HTH.

Block cursor indicates Insert mode. You can toggle it with Insert key.

Another possible reason is Block caret option enabled:

Thanks for the help guys!

I am on Mac, and this is in Android Studio. I never enabled the block cursor--it magically appeard when I accidentally typed some keyboard combination.

Any idea what key combination that might have been?

Insert key.

If you don't know which one, remap it here and hit it to toggle this mode:

If you have Vim installed, make sure that Vim Emulator mode is off (Alt+Cmd+V on Mac)

On a Mac there is no short cut to Enable or Disable the Insert mode. 

Just go to the Keymap section of preferences and add a Keyboard Shortcut for yourself to Toggle between the Instert/Overwrite cursor mode.

How do you change the terminal block through a pipeline?

@NibragWeb you can't. According to https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/working-with-embedded-local-terminal.html#d899716e37

"Note that the setting Use block caret is not inherited in the terminal - its caret is always block."

FWIW, I had this problem recently on a new install of IntelliJ. I installed the IdeaVim plugin, thinking it was something else. The reason I had the block instead of the cursor was because the editor was in vim's View Mode as opposed to Insert Mode. In my case, I simply deactivated the plugin by going to Preferences -> Plugins, unchecking IdeaVim and restarting.

⌥ + ⌘ +  v 

On my Mac keyboard toggle shortcut is: Fn+Enter.

Hope it helps, guys.

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Had this happen on a Mac while connected to a Windows machine via Remote Desktop, somehow while attempting to type open and closed curly braces (both of which typed). I couldn't find any solution to trigger it back, from attempting to finger-fumble re-discover the initial trigger, to all the suggestions here and some other sites. Nothing acted like Insert (including the ubiquitous clear+0 on the keypad).

Luckily, Insert mode is set per file (at least in my case), so closing and re-opening the file was an easy fix.

More importantly, I cleared the Insert/Overwrite shortcut from all my installations because I will never want that.

fn + ins(prt sc)  it gives back | .

@Josh Cummings this works perfect for me: "Preferences -> Plugins, unchecking IdeaVim and restarting"

thanks.

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it is weird on mac when i open any file cursor indicates is Insert mode.

i need to switch in every file i opened.

and i can't type anything without switching several times.

And block caret option is not click.

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sorry for my bad english.

Please contact support with the logs (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207241085).

Search "print screen" button on your keyboard and press it...
It worked for me coz "insert" and "print screen" are same button in my keyboard....

Go to Tools and unclick Vim Emulator and insert and ctrl+c, ... problems go away.

There's no 'INS' key on the Mac keyboard, so I was lost as to how this was happening. Then someone mentioned that it occurred when opening every new file which was the same as my scenario. Unchecking the Vim Emulator did the trick for me!

Thanks @Sdfor.

I have this very annoying problem: every time I open my python project, the cursor is in the caret mode... The "Use block caret" is switched off. I've tried to select the checkbox and then unselect it. Doesn't help. Please, help!

The version of the PyCharm:
PyCharm 2019.1.1 (Community Edition)
Build #PC-191.6605.12, built on April 3, 2019
JRE: 11.0.2+9-b159.34 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.14.4

My laptop:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
macOS 10.14.4 (18E226)

Disable IdeaVim plug-in? http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/enabling-and-disabling-plugins.html.

Serge, thank you so much!! I've missed the comment about Vim.

I just encounter a similar problem and was confused. I noticed that the cursor changed because I pressed a certain key on my keyboard mistakenly. I pressed numeric key 0 and the cursor went back to normal

Serge your my hero i'm doing courses and was so close to giving up learning because this was stressing me out and ruining my code when i was looking away while typing following the instructor.... <3

I unchecked the Column Selection Mode option under the Edit menu in my case.

hey guys, its not just giving back the pipeline from the block, anyting i start typing between already typed content it just gets replaced with the present content,

also when i press the Enter button it doesnt go into the new line!!

could anyone help me out here!!! Please

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this helped me,

Thankyou :)

I had to disable the IdeaVim Plugin. I wonder how JetBrains has never realized this issue. The IdeaVim plugin issue had been causing issues for me personally