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Disable Sonoma Text Insertion Point ("Cursor" / "Caret")
#!/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript
const App = Application.currentApplication();
App.includeStandardAdditions = true;
const kCFPrefsFeatureFlagsDir = '/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain';
const kCFPrefsFeatureEnabledKey = 'Enabled';
const kUIKitDomainPrefsTemporaryPath = '/tmp/UIKit.plist';
const kUIKitRedesignedTextCursorKey = 'redesigned_text_cursor';
function run(_) {
const dict = $.NSMutableDictionary.new;
const enabled = $.NSMutableDictionary.new;
enabled.setValueForKey(false, kCFPrefsFeatureEnabledKey);
dict.setValueForKey(enabled, kUIKitRedesignedTextCursorKey);
const error = $();
dict.writeToURLError(
$.NSURL.fileURLWithPath(kUIKitDomainPrefsTemporaryPath),
error,
);
if (typeof error.js != 'undefined') {
return `🫤: ${error.localizedDescription}`;
}
return App.doShellScript(
[
`mkdir -p '${kCFPrefsFeatureFlagsDir}'`,
`mv '${kUIKitDomainPrefsTemporaryPath}' '${kCFPrefsFeatureFlagsDir}'`,
].join(' && '),
{
administratorPrivileges: true,
},
).length == 0 ? '😃' : '🫤';
}
@zdravnick
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you're right. But I have no idea how to do this...

@dittlebop
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dittlebop commented May 30, 2024

Thank you for taking the time to put this together. When I copy it in, I get the message
zsh: event not found: /usr/bin/env
And the caps lock feature still displays.

I'm very new to using the terminal window, and have no real history of monkeying around with such things.

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