A textual region has only a text cursor; it does not have a graphics cursor. A textual region drawing statement begins at the current position of the text cursor, just as a drawing statement for a graphical region begins at the current position of the object's graphics cursor. When you move the text cursor in a textual region, you specify the column and line numbers of the text, rather than X Y coordinates, which are used for graphical objects.

Although the text cursor is normally not visible on the display, you can make the text cursor visible in a textual region by specifying a make cursor visible statement.