cursor

kursori, kohdistin A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
puhekieltä A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.
puhekieltä An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also referred to as "the caret".
puhekieltä A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
puhekieltä A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly, also known as the iterator pattern.
puhekieltä To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)

The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.