OK - I give in . . . what's the little cross for?

I've used FCP for years and I absolutely love it - but every time I use the ripple tool +(very often)+ I wonder what the iddy-biddy cross thingy's for.
It disappears when the tool's over an edit.
I've wasted too much time searching for this, so please put me at ease - or tell me I've been missing some fantastic feature all this time!

In which case, you've got to ask then: why does:
(a) the Roll tool change between a "Roll cursor" with and without a cross and yet
(b) the Slip tool changes between a conventional cursor and the "Slip cursor"? and
(c) the Razor Blade tool changes between a conventional cursor +with a cross+ and a "Razor blade"??
Gotta be an "interface-inconsistency" bug - although a bug pretty low on the priorities, one for which we hope they're all working on much more important bugs...

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