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<p>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.</p>
</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>
<p>When you made your <code>filetypes.common</code> did you include the section name above the <code>caret=</code> setting?</p>

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