Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

On 08/12/2017 12:11 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> ken wrote:
>
>> (set-cursor-color COLOR-NAME)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> If someone preferred to place a statement in
>> .emacs to accomplish the goal-- rather than
>> "customizing"-- what should the above
>> documentation say?
> ...
>
> But don't you want the cursor to take on the
> color of text?

No, as I said, I want the color of the cursor to be limegreen:

> Having a fairly large screen and often many windows open, it's 
> sometimes difficult to find the cursor in an emacs window.  So I 
> thought limegreen would be a more discernible color for a cursor than 
> the default black.  So I put this in my .emacs:
>
> (set-cursor-color "limegreen")
>
> However, the result is that only the first emacs window loaded has a 
> limegreen cursor.  All the others subsequent have the default black 
> cursor.  Running the same function in each emacs buffer does correctly 
> yield a limegreen cursor, but not a practical solution when I have 
> twenty or thirty buffers open, each in its own window (or frame). 

It's really quite simple... to understand at least.  Maybe though the 
elisp which is needed to put in my .emacs is too complicated to determine?