From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs lisp question
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:38:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-96D5A5.20385406022011@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 28c7d37e-682e-41e2-b6cd-6fe18322949d@x11g2000yqc.googlegroups.com
In article
<28c7d37e-682e-41e2-b6cd-6fe18322949d@x11g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
Ben <bkey76@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a small ELlisp package that configures Emacs to use a vertical
> bar caret. It takes into account the differences between GNU Emacs
> and XEmacs.
>
> In this package I have the following line.
>
> (setq-default cursor-type '(bar . bk-preferred-caret-width))
>
> bk-preferred-caret-width is a defcustom variable with a default value
> of 2.
>
> Unfortunately this does not have the desired effect. However, the
> following does work.
>
> (setq-default cursor-type '(bar . 2))
>
> Can anyone suggest how I might get this to work?
>
> Thanks.
(setq-default cursor-type `(bar . ,bk-preferred-caret-width))
However, this grabs the value of bk-preferred-caret-width when Emacs
starts up. Changing it later won't have any effect.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2011-02-06 23:19 Emacs lisp question Ben
2011-02-07 1:38 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
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2013-06-27 15:33 ` Emacs Lisp Question Barry Margolin
2013-06-27 13:11 drain
2013-06-27 13:25 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2011-02-06 23:04 Emacs lisp question Ben Key
2011-02-07 0:49 ` Perry Smith
2011-02-07 1:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-07 1:30 ` Ben Key
2009-06-27 13:08 Emacs & Lisp question Ben Badgley
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2009-06-27 5:52 ` Tim X
2009-06-27 10:19 ` Richard Riley
2009-06-26 23:05 Ben Badgley
2009-06-27 17:40 ` Johan Bockgård
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2004-01-09 16:48 ` Emacs " Paolo Gianrossi
2004-01-09 15:55 Gian Uberto Lauri
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2003-08-22 11:17 ` Emacs LISP Question Klaus Zeitler
2003-08-20 16:04 Yakov Nekritch
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