How is this 'text-cursor' called or what is its name ? :
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Everytime when you click in a text box or somewhere when you can type, you get this 'flashing bar' in the very left corner of the line. How is this called ? Also can you have more than two 'bars' in different places at the same time ?

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It is just known as a cursor. If its a flashing bar, it is in "insert" mode. If you press the insert button on your keyboard, some apps will switch the cursor to "overstrike" mode. "Overstrike", i find, to be a bit annoying as it will overwrite the text on the screen.

as far as having two cursors on the screen, I do not think so.

Wikipedia says it is called "caret"

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