From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change cursor type Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:43:23 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <41194d17-7423-4b72-9ccf-22f98d9d50a2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385743513 6814 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2013 16:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:45:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 29 17:45:17 2013 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 1VmRBt-0007Sm-CD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmRBs-00033p-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:45:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="189748f827f5005aa08ac3cba2786117"; logging-data="11869"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VaETUB3tzuEipOQ41iYYl/p/rklKUiuQ=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/GljHTiBhLuars+KWgARhvuh104= sha1:+TgjhhY8i9Vj0yJf+C4pc2D3Kdk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202448 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94717 Archived-At: mohamedaslam785@gmail.com writes: > On Tuesday, 25 May 2010 23:34:56 UTC+5:30, patrol wrote: >> Hi, >> I want to change the cursor from box to bar style. Apparently, the >> variable cursor-type is not a "user-option" variable and so doesn't >> respond to M-x set-variable. I'm not clear on this distinction between >> user-option and "non-user-option" variables, and the manual doesn't >> seem to say anything about it (I could be mistaken but I didn't find >> anything). Can anyone tell me how to change the value of cursor-type >> to "bar"? I'd like the change to be global. >> Thanks so much. Can't tell what this is, except that the original post date is May 2010. -- Dan Espen