From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tty blinking cursor Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:45:29 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: References: <87ek097fay.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144500057 5016 80.91.229.2 (8 Apr 2006 12:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 08 14:40:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSCkH-00017l-Jg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:40:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSCkH-0003fx-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:40:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news-peer.in.tum.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1144496921 7545 193.149.49.134 (8 Apr 2006 11:48:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Apr 2006 11:48:41 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138620 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34238 Archived-At: Bastien wrote on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:15:01 +0200: > Hi, > ASAIK, (blink-cursor-mode -1) has no effect in a tty. Specifically in a _Linux_ tty (which you're headers suggest you're using), it won't have any effect. > But i'm using emacs in conjunction with screen in a tty and i'd like to > know if someone knows how to circumvent that particulary annoying > behavior of the cursor. I don't think this is possible within Emacs. You'll probably have to hack Linux to fix this. I don't much like it either. :-( > thanks, > -- > Bastien -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").