From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 08:03:41 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86vb1x4czm.fsf@student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464882755 4588 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 15:52:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 17:52:30 2016 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 1b8Uv7-0002SS-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:52:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8Uv7-0005Vq-5l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:52:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder1.xsusenet.com!nntpspool.opticnetworks.net!nntpspool01.opticnetworks.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ddd893XL/I2VLPuGtZve816fRQ4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217907 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110218 Archived-At: Davin Pearson writes: > I entered the following command: > > (blink-cursor-mode -1) > > but it doesn't turn cursor blinking off. > > What gives? Yeah, Emacs can't set that in all contexts. Do you run a Unix system? If so, do you run the GUI version, or do you run it with -nw (or a -nox binary) in a terminal emulator (e.g., xterm)? Or do you run it in a Linux VT ("the console" or ttys)? Or do you run it in another way still? It should always work in the GUI version tho I don't have it so I can't/don't want to verify that. (But it is doable in the xterm and VTs as well, for sure.) By the way, the help (in this case `C-h f') is your friend: This command [`blink-cursor-mode'] is effective only on graphical frames. On text-only terminals, cursor blinking is controlled by the terminal. -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 42 Blogomatic articles -