🐞 Very glichy when scrolling and keep blinking

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the blinking and glitchy scrolling with any text file, following the numbered steps and attached recording. Compare behavior while scrolling, typing, and changing text; done means scrolling and text entry are smooth and the blink behavior has a user setting.

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Description

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Description

Idk if it is a feature or a bug, but the blinking when entering and scrolling is very straining to the eyes. Also when scrolling, it is very glitchy.

To Reproduce
  1. Open any text file.
  2. Scrolling.
  3. the scrolling is glitchy.
  4. Scrolling or change text.
  5. It is blinking like crazy for every scroll and every character enter.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/58c9a9f8-3fa4-475f-9c11-912a9d1376ec

Expected Behavior

Smooth scrolling and add blink setting.

Version Information

CodeEdit: [e.g. 0.3.6-alpha.47]
macOS: [e.g. 26.2]
Xcode: [e.g. 26.2]

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Screenshots

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/436c9c04-bebb-4c3d-8251-b23f0aa7a57b

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