From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tty blinking cursor Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:21:55 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <44391856$0$15789$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <87ek097fay.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> <87odzc7yby.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144593633 6410 80.91.229.2 (9 Apr 2006 14:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 09 16:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSb5Y-0001pC-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSb5X-0004gF-G5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87odzc7yby.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.45.240 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=f0^LGS5YBTZlm>CYcV_; >263VOE List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34252 Archived-At: Bastien wrote: > bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes: > > >>Do C-h C-e (`view-emacs-problems'), and search for "*** GNU/Linux: >>Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block." >> >>Maybe you can use some of that information. > > > I've followed this: > > ,----[ C-h C-e Emacs on a tty ] > | To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file > | `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send > | the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to > | produce a modified terminfo entry. > `---- > > .. and it worked well, thank you very much! > > I now have a static cursor. For some reasons that i don't understand, > this cursor is red, but it could be worse. > > Bastien, In XEmacs, the config-face "text cursor" gives the colour to be used for the cursors. I'm sure Emacs has a similar config option. HTH, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.