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But the arrow cursor is not used for selecting text. The cursor switches to an I-beam over selectable text. This was the case as far back as the original Mac;

But the arrow cursor is not used for selecting text. The cursor switches to an I-beam over selectable text. This was the case as far back as the original Mac; I'm not sure which cursors were used on systems before that.

thwarted 13y ago
Not all on-screen text is selectable!
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  And that's a problem at least an order of magnitude more serious than which few pixels the cursor is covering.