Cursor

Cursor may refer to:

Computing

• Cursor (code editor), an AI powered integrated development environment
• Cursor (user interface), an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device
• Cursor (databases), a control structure that enables traversal over the records in a database
• Cursor, a value that is the position of an object in some known data structure, a predecessor of pointers

People

• Cursor is a Roman cognomen: some famous people with this name were:
  • Lucius Papirius Cursor (c.365–after 310 BC), Roman senator, five times consul, two times dictator
  • Lucius Papirius Cursor (consul in 293 and 272 BC)

Other uses

• Cursor (slide rule), indicates corresponding points on scales that are not adjacent to each other
• Cursor Models, a former German company making models of vehicles
• CURSOR, an early magazine distributed on cassette from 1978 and into the early 1980s
• Cursor, a holographic sidekick character from the TV series Automan
• "Cursor", a song by Purple Kiss from their 2022 EP MemeM

See also

• Pointer (graphical user interfaces), commonly called a mouse cursor