From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Hobelmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:19:18 -0600 Message-ID: <396j6lF5v1hnkU1@individual.net> References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <82rk0d.36.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110317058 21638 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 21:24:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 22:24:17 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8m7n-0008Tz-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mML-0000RL-Gt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:35:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Trace: individual.net z+zkER552KH+ho2Uqwgg/gqQI1ZPPcN46xUI9ahp5bJ273QzYc User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <82rk0d.36.ln@acm.acm> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129099 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24647 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24647 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>* do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? >> if so, which? > > > Yes: a blinking underline. (It's all that's available, without serious > kernel hacking). The BSDs (Free, I believe also Net) used to have a box cursor. I think it was mainly one switch in the terminal driver init code... (if you are adventurous)