From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mohamedaslam785@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change cursor type Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:08:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41194d17-7423-4b72-9ccf-22f98d9d50a2@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385738579 12738 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2013 15:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:22:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 29 16:23:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VmPuK-0004Qd-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmPuK-0002UJ-Eh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:23:04 -0500 X-Received: by 10.43.152.202 with SMTP id kx10mr15128857icc.3.1385719721602; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:08:41 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.111.38 with SMTP id if6mr117110igb.10.1385719721318; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:08:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bm17no695507qab.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni3166qat.0!nntp.google.com!p15no2224604qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=112.79.40.110; posting-account=TPxsbQoAAAAUfX16u42T0928u6KnYU6V Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 112.79.40.110 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:08:41 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202444 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:22:45 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94713 Archived-At: On Tuesday, 25 May 2010 23:34:56 UTC+5:30, patrol wrote: > Hi, > I want to change the cursor from box to bar style. Apparently, the > variable cursor-type is not a "user-option" variable and so doesn't > respond to M-x set-variable. I'm not clear on this distinction between > user-option and "non-user-option" variables, and the manual doesn't > seem to say anything about it (I could be mistaken but I didn't find > anything). Can anyone tell me how to change the value of cursor-type > to "bar"? I'd like the change to be global. > Thanks so much.