I think was popularized by Neovide

https://neovide.dev/features.html#animated-cursor

Reminds me of the old Compiz plugin that would make your windows burst into flames on closing.

The home page has GIFs of both a simpler smear-fade cursor and a wilder manga-slash cursor https://tattoy.sh

> - airhorn and/or light saber sound effects,

I will take the light saber sounds.

With stereo-spacial transformation, so the sounds "direction" and "distance" match my own physical dynamic orientation relative to the cursor's motion on the screen.

And, the ability to open a small window, which gives me the cursor's visual point-of-view, as it zooms through the graphics on the screen.

Also, each traversed character should get "hot" as the curser goes over it, indicated with a stable glow for a quarter of a second, followed by an exponential fade over another second.

I think we can all agree that when in flow, functional distractions need to work harder, be more immersive, to be effective.

Here you go.

https://ash-k.itch.io/textreme

I'm the creator of Tattoy, so thanks. A significant part of the motivation for the project is that it's fun, like a "toy", as the name suggests. I do use it everyday, but only for one serious usecase, to allow my Twitch chatters to visually interact with my terminal by sending emotes to it. I'm not personally into the animated cursors, they were just easy to implement because I'd already built out support for Ghostty's background shaders.

But, if you want a truly serious usecase, then my pipe dream is that Tattoy becomes the "XWayland" for an entirely new protocol for terminals that explores moving on from ANSI codes, the terminfo database and so on. I wrote a blog post about this idea: https://tattoy.sh/news/an-end-to-terminal-ansi-codes

As in the cursor trailing to new position? I use it, albeit on a different emulator.

Greatly helps when demoing something from my terminal and having multiple splits open.

The creator here, sounds like I need to improve the docs. Did you set `enabled = true` in the `[animated_cursors]` section of the config? If so, then this could be bug, and I'd be very grateful for a report in the repo's issues: https://github.com/tattoy-org/tattoy

It very much should work on asciinema, it's all pure text after all.

I'd very much appreciate a bug report. It looks like maybe Tattoy isn't connecting to the GPU on Mac: https://github.com/tattoy-org/tattoy/issues/129

Yes, happens occasionally. I just wiggle it left/right or up/down so I can see where it is. No big deal. But put of curiosity I might still try that one day, with a more subtle effect though. ;)