cursor

A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.

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A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.

An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.

A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.

To navigate by means of the cursor keys.intransitive

• The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.