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Subject: Re: why cannot set cursor-type with setq but only with
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seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> (setq-default cursor-type    'bar)
>
> How come (setq cursor-type    'bar) doesn't work????

The documentation about cursor-type says "automatically becomes
buffer-local when set".  So if in a buffer you type M-: (setq
cursor-type 'bar) RET, then the cursor will change in that buffer (or
window, rather).

I don't know what's the current buffer when ~/.emacs is executed.  A
temp buffer, perhaps, or *scratch*.

-- 
Ambibibentists unite!