From: Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>
Subject: Re: why cannot set cursor-type with setq but only with setq-default??????
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:28:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p04310100ba4b7eba66bf@[198.17.100.22]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf23f78f.0301150934.2b1e7b76@posting.google.com>
At 9:34 AM -0800 1/15/03, Christian Seberino wrote:
>setq-default is used to set cursor to be a bar rather than a box...
>
>(setq-default cursor-type 'bar)
>
>How come (setq cursor-type 'bar) doesn't work????
Chris,
Apparently cursor-type is automatically buffer-local, so setq changes
its value only for the current buffer. setq-default changes its
value for all buffers that don't have their own buffer-local version.
cursor-type as a variable seems to be new to emacs-21. I didn't even
know it existed until you asked this question. Before 21 you had to
use modify-frame-parameters to change it. I have not been able to
find any documentation on cursor-type as a variable other than in
emacs-21's interactive help. Can you point us to some? Thanks.
--Greg
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2003-01-15 17:34 why cannot set cursor-type with setq but only with setq-default?????? Christian Seberino
2003-01-15 21:28 ` Greg Hill [this message]
2003-01-15 21:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-15 21:59 ` Romain FRANCOISE
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2003-01-15 22:15 Bingham, Jay
2003-01-15 22:39 Bingham, Jay
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2003-01-15 23:21 ` John Paul Wallington
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