From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Waldek Hebisch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to get normal cursor in text mode? Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:46:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130335483 4705 80.91.229.2 (26 Oct 2005 14:04:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 16:04:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUlnW-0001EM-KP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:58:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUlnV-0004d7-T3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EUkiE-0005RS-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EUkiB-0005Pj-OP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUki9-0005PF-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [156.17.86.1] (helo=hera.math.uni.wroc.pl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EUki9-0000AG-AZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from hebisch by hera.math.uni.wroc.pl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EUkg1-0001QD-00 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:46:45 +0200 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)] 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:30584 Archived-At: >>From some time emacs turn on ugly big block cursor in text mode on Linux console. This cursor is very distracting, making emacs almost unusable. Facts: - most other editors just use normal cursor - I _can_ stop emacs using block cursor by telling emacs that it is running on vt100 - the Cursor customization group seem to contain options about X Is there a way to tell emacs to use normal cursor? IFAICS emacs is actively working to turn block cursor on, so it must contain somewhere special code to do this. BTW. The terminal trick works, but I am searching a way which does not require messing in the system. -- Waldek Hebisch hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl