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Better Xcode ibeam cursor

Better i-beam (text cursor) for Xcode for dark background / light text color themes.

Important note for Xcode 7.3+ users!

The file that controls the i-beam cursor is no longer a flat .tiff file, but rather part of an assets bundle called Assets.car. Please see issue #16's thread for a manual workaround. Thanks go out to @cjheng, @allen-zeng, @sokobania, and @ebaker355 for helping find and solve the issue. I'm looking forward to getting this working in an automated way in the future.

Directions for pre-7.3 versions of Xcode

Directions:

The easy way
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/egold/better-xcode-ibeam-cursor/master/install.sh | bash
The manual way
For Xcode 7.2.1 and earlier:
  1. Clone this repository (or fork it if you want to customize the tiff yourself!)
  2. Create a backup of /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Resources/DVTIbeamCursor.tiff
  3. Copy (sudo cp) the tiff to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Resources/DVTIbeamCursor.tiff
  4. Restart Xcode
For Xcode 7.3 and later:
  1. Clone this repository (the lines below assume you've cloned to your home directory)
  2. Create a backup of /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Resources/Assets.car
  3. Patch the Assets.car file with the appropriate patch:
cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Resources
sudo bspatch Assets.car Assets.car ~/better-xcode-ibeam-cursor/patches/Assets.car-Xcode-7.3.bspatch
  1. Restart Xcode

You should now have an i-beam that is more easy to see on a dark or black background.

Before:

Original Xcode Ibeam

After:

Improved Xcode Ibeam

Background

I find it more enjoyable to code with the Midnight color theme in Xcode, but found myself always hunting for the cursor, especially on a large monitor. I found a pretty good TIFF someone created, so I cleaned up a bit of the outline thickness and posted it here!

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