When viewing a code file, how to disable the blinking cursor?

[concretevitamin]

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Recently GitHub updated its UI so that when viewing a code file, dragging the mouse to select some text, or just clicking somewhere on the page, would make a blinking cursor appear.

I found this behavior distracting since I just want to view the file, not edit it. Any way to turn it off?

[round-corgi]

Yes please. The second I select some code or even accidentally click anywhere on the code page, I have to find an off-screen area to click before I can even use back/forward buttons.

This makes browsing code files really annoying, as I never want to edit code directly in GitHub, it's just there to view.

[yangle]

Another annoyance from the new behavior is that pressing Home moves the blinking cursor to the start of the line rather than moving the viewport to the top of the page.

[sd3412]

Github, you need to urgently remove the idiotic cursor feature which does not serve any purpose other than preventing me from navigating my browser with the keyboard.

I really do not understand who in your organization conceived the notion of placing a cursor into text which is not meant to be edited.

I am very tired of unfortunately having come to rely on tools of the craft which are captive to organizations that hire zoomers and are obsessed with yassifying everything.

If someone had a custom css/tamperscript to offer I'd be very grateful.

[bombela]

It breaks all keyboard navigation, it's infuriating. I get caught up every single time. I use Vimium, and every-time I press jk to move up/down while the blinking cursor is active, I get a popup hard to dismiss stating that the file is readonly. As if it wasn't obvious.

[montchr]

It's also made it almost impossible to copy the permalink for a multiple-line region of code without the addition of a column number. Who asked for column numbers? To me, it only overcomplicates an important feature of the code view, which means now I have to edit the URL to remove the column indicators since they give the false impression that they are meaningful.

[tankorsmash]

I'd love to have the ability to press Up and Down to control the scrollbar, like before. Or being able to hit Escape to go out of cursor mode into traditional browser page.