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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cua-mode: cursor types
Date: 01 May 2004 23:25:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pt9nrg9k.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40934D94.2020102@math.ku.dk>

Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk> writes:

> Nice feature! My eyes are on the cursor rather than on the mode line.
> 
> However, there are some problems:
> 1. With two windows in the same frame displaying two different
>    buffers, toggling one into overwrite mode changes the color of the
>    hollow cursor in the other.

There is only one cursor color shared by all windows in a frame, so
I cannot do anything about that.

> 2. With two frames displaying the same buffer, toggling into overwrite
>    mode only changes the cursor in the active frame. Maybe the other
>    frame just needs repainting.

Problem is that cursor color is a frame specific parameter.
Feel free to post a patch :-)


> 3. If you don't use cua-mode but just set
>    cua-enable-cursor-indications to t, the feature does not work. Is
>    that intended?

It only works with cua-mode as the name suggests.

It would be nice to separate it, but it is tied in with cua's global-mark
feature, so it is a bit tricky to do right.  Maybe in 22.x

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-01 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-01  7:11 cua-mode: cursor types Lars Hansen
2004-05-01 21:25 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2004-05-03  9:24   ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-03 15:44   ` Ehud Karni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-24  3:20 Michael Mauger
2004-04-30 20:56 ` Kim F. Storm

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