Unanswered Mac question: How do I change the insertion point (aka "caret", aka "cursor" on other systems) blink rate in Mac OS X? It's a little slow for my taste, and makes it difficult to navigate through textareas. I tend to lose track of the cursor when moving vertically and the cursor is in the "off" mode. Doc searches indicate that in OS 9 and prior, this setting used to be in the PRAM, but that's all I can find. Anyone?
January 5, 2004
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this may be helpful
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/TextEdit/texted_refchap/function_group_10.html#//apple_ref/c/func/TEIdle
As I think that the TE engine is used in most mac-ish apps (ie text-boxen in Safari). Poking around seemed to indicate that it's still stored in PRAM, though. You formerly accessed it via a dialog in Control Panels, now replaced by System Preferences.
Have you tried playing with Sys Pref > Kbd & Mouse > Keyboard: Key Repeat Rate and Delay Until Repeat ? I didn't notice a difference, but it seems like I've seen blink rate used to indicate that setting to the user in the past.
If your machine can boot into 9, try setting the blink rate there and booting back into OS X. If the setting is still maintained and read from PRAM, that should work.
(never neglect a visit to www.macosxhints.com, by the way, for questions like this. Although I didn't find this answer there, it's the best place to find the stuff Apple hasn't documented)