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<blockquote>
<p>Strange that the cursor is a block, by default its a vertical bar, you havn't said what system you have and where you got Geany from or its version, which may say why its a block. [Ok, you added it while I was typing, know nothing about the Arch package, its not something this project makes]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Well, you can see <a href="https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/geany/trunk/PKGBUILD">here</a> how it's installed.</p>
<pre><code>./configure --enable-gtk3 --enable-gtkdoc-header --prefix=/usr
sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0/g' libtool
make
make -C $pkgname-$pkgver DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
<p>When you made your <code>filetypes.common</code> did you include the section name above the <code>caret=</code> setting?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Sure. Seems like the config is not read or totally ignored (even if the status bar states <em>configuration file reloaded</em>)</p>
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