How do I turn off the blinking cursor/caret in the Arduino IDE?
Note: does not work with version 1.6.11. Works with 1.0.6


Open the Arduino IDE
Go to File 
Then go to Preferences
At the bottom of the page is the file location you can enter to set additional preferences
Exit the Arduino IDE
Go to the preferences file location then set editor.caret.blink=false
Then save
Then restart the IDE and the caret will not flash