From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Markus Gritsch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cursor-type as bar Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:33:11 +0100 Message-ID: <440E7AA7.5030908@iue.tuwien.ac.at> References: <440DA0D1.2050608@iue.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141799670 1875 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2006 06:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 06:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 08 07:34:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGsFa-0005Th-1P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:34:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGsFZ-00059j-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:34:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FGsEf-0004rK-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:33:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FGsEZ-0004Ox-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGsEY-0004Lp-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:33:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.223.55.196] (helo=mail.synedra.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FGsHK-0003Em-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.synedra.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8B1BD1045F8; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:33:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.252.186] (unknown [192.168.252.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.synedra.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D291045F4; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:33:17 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Original-To: "J. David Boyd" In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51349 Archived-At: J. David Boyd wrote: > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > >> Markus Gritsch writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to use a bar cursor, instead of a block cursor. >>> (setq default-frame-alist '((cursor-type . (bar . 2)))) >>> >>> The problem is, that the bar cursor is drawn like a block cursor, only >>> using a smaller width. To really be usable, the bar cursor should be >>> drawn *between* the characters, e.g. shifting it width/2 pixels to the left. >>> >>> On the attached Emacs.png the 'u' is partially hiden by the bar-cursor. >>> It is even worse when the cursor is placed at the 'i', in which case >>> the letter is hidden completely. The attachment SciTE.png shows a >>> screenshot of the OpenSource Scintilla text editing widget, which shifts >>> a 2 pixel wide bar-cursor one pixel to the left. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Markus >>> >> I'm using Emacs 22.0.50 on cygwin (windows xp), and the bar cursor does not >> hide the letter 'i', as it is moved a tad to the left. > > Oops, sorry. I'm using Emacs 22.0.50 on linux (mandriva le 2005), and the bar > cursor does not hide the letter 'i' .... Could you please provide screenshots?