From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lowell Gilbert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change cursor type Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: <44wruq8zjz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291834699 26562 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 18:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:58:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 19:58:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQPDS-0002Px-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:58:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34105 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPDS-0001Bq-9i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:58:14 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:15:12 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TFpT+b9vYm7p7HjHjbCpe1DWYAM= Original-Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.78.145 Original-X-Trace: sv3-7g4msm5k7l5SMAI4YXBcCo0MwrZYsW6FvryadtZJakGebBf9aSeFpnbIHLlsWm44qM2Ik39YlMGaezC!EHzDS4NUjiEIm1OKVIEqJ4TwsiudKvYFyqss+2i5fCCaScpClrOM5UY8lOfDpObgDrFPIjqNhcnK!xM1irRnnmg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178429 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:75841 Archived-At: patrol writes: > 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. Add to .emacs: (setq-default cursor-type 'bar)