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doc faq: Document beam cursors being inconsistent

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@ -239,6 +239,19 @@ highlighting hooks is `<lang>-highlight`. You can thus disable syntax
highlighting using the following command: `set global disabled_hooks
'.+-highlight'`
=== Can the cursor be rendered as a beam?
Rendering the cursor as a beam is a common feature of other modal editors,
it however doesn't fit within Kakoune's selection-first paradigm.
There is a selection on screen at all times, containing either data selected
by the user, or a newline character when the buffer is empty.
A selection is bound by an anchor and a cursor. They can overlap, but
ultimately must both be placed *over* a character. A beam cursor placed
*between* two characters doesn't fulfil that requirement, and is thus
not allowed.
== The editing language
=== Why aren't there other scopes similar to `%sh{}` e.g. python?