From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: turning off some new features Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:03:10 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032974194 25496 127.0.0.1 (25 Sep 2002 17:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17uFm2-0006cv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:16:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uFm6-0007Ec-00; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:16:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!news-out.worldnet.att.net.MISMATCH!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 61 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.228.19.12 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1032973390 12.228.19.12 (Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:03:10 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:03:10 GMT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105304 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1856 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1856 "Bruce Park" writes: >Hello all, > >I just upgraded to redhat 7.3 and I believe it uses emacs21.2-2. Can >anyone tell me how to change a few things in this new version? >First, I would like to take out this graphical menu that appears here >like x-emacs. Second, the cursor keeps blinking and I have edited the >.emacs folder to shut this off but that's not working. >If anyone could give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it. > >bp > Hi: I'm guessing that by "graphical menu" you're referring to the tool bar. You can turn that off with (tool-bar-mode -1). As for the cursor, when I do M-x apropos RET cursor RET I get this: ,---- | | blink-cursor | Variable: *Non-nil means blinking cursor mode is active. | Plist: standard-value variable-documentation custom-tag custom-type custom-set custom-requests | blink-cursor-delay | Variable: *Seconds of idle time after which cursor starts to blink. | Plist: standard-value variable-documentation custom-tag custom-type custom-requests | blink-cursor-end | Function: Stop cursor blinking. | blink-cursor-idle-timer | Variable: Timer started after `blink-cursor-delay' seconds of Emacs idle time. | Plist: variable-documentation | blink-cursor-interval | Variable: *Length of cursor blink interval in seconds. | Plist: standard-value variable-documentation custom-tag custom-type custom-requests | blink-cursor-mode | Command: Toggle blinking cursor mode. | Variable: Non-nil means blinking cursor is active. | Plist: variable-documentation | blink-cursor-start | Function: Timer function called from the timer `blink-cursor-idle-timer'. | blink-cursor-timer | Variable: Timer started from `blink-cursor-start'. | Plist: variable-documentation | blink-cursor-timer-function | Function: Timer function of timer `blink-cursor-timer'. | `---- I'm pretty sure your answers lie in the docs for one or more of these variables. -- Mike Slass