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One user in MUGS asked how to stop the insertion point from blinking in OS X.

This is the default:

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod 560

This stops it from blinking. It’s a hack because ‘1′ sets the cursor to blink so fast that it appears not to be blinking at all.

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod 1

UPDATE:

Seems that this will only work with some applications. It did not work with Microsoft Word. Also, changing the value to 1 works on LCd monitors but for CRTs, it’s better to have the value at something ridiculously long, e.g. 10000000000000000