Hello. I used the Kate text editor by many years and in the last days I wanted to get rid of the last KDE dependencies on my system looking for a GTK alternative.

Geany is a good text editor, some features are still missing compared to Kate, but I'm going to use it anyway. Unfortunately I'm getting some issues with the style configuration. I'm used to the Kate caret which is not a block by default. As I'm seeing in the documentation, it can be changed in Geany to look as a vertical line, but it's not working.

As stated [here](https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#special-file-filetypes-commo...), I have to modify the `filetypes.common`.

the file can be created manually, adding only the settings you want to change

Looking [here](https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#id4)

``` caret

The style for coloring the caret(the blinking cursor). Only first and third argument is interpreted. Set the third argument to true to change the caret into a block caret.

Example: caret=0x000000;0x0;false;false ```

But when I decomment the line and set `caret=0x000000;0x0;false;false`, nothing changes. Even if I change the caret width to 0, trying to make it invisible, the settings are not applied. Of course I loaded the new saved configuration, also tried to close and reopen the application, but it's the same.

It's very difficult to understand how to change this settings. Unfortunately also on this point Kate is better, even if having too many graphical preferences can lead to confusion.