In the current Company where I work they are very much OLD fashion (too much for my taste) ... but I've seen that really in terms of readability (and identifying where the cursor is, inside complex forms) this could help.
Ah, I've just seen that this is the default cursor in GNome Console, where this cursor does a XOR with the text ... so probably is not too much Old, or could be a revenge of Old school :-) ... I'll add a ticket for 1.5 and I could try to do it, if possible for the 1.4.1, ok ? Bye
