From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tty blinking cursor Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:16:40 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: <87ek097fay.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144518025 20421 80.91.229.2 (8 Apr 2006 17:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 17:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 08 19:40:24 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 1FSHQ5-0002IX-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSHQ4-0008Bz-S5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:40:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!129.16.222.141.MISMATCH!gide.ita.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: linus003.dd.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: gide.ita.chalmers.se 1144516600 9222 129.16.117.203 (8 Apr 2006 17:16:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@gide.ita.chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 17:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I2fH9c8Ir2FV4P50YH3bIvRAtzU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138627 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:34245 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > ASAIK, (blink-cursor-mode -1) has no effect in a tty. > > 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. Do C-h C-e (`view-emacs-problems'), and search for "*** GNU/Linux: Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block." Maybe you can use some of that information. (Shouldn't `visible-cursor' be mentioned there?) -- Johan Bockgård