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On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 5:15:48 PM UTC-4, sunch...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, May 7, 2012 at 9:42:31 AM UTC-4, Xah Lee wrote:
> > In emacs 24, the cursor shape seems to have changed from a solid box
> > to i-beam?
> > 
> > however, setting the following won't work?
> > 
> > (setq cursor-type 'box)
> > (setq cursor-type 'bar)
> > 
> > any hints on what's going on?
> > 
> >  Xah
> 
> I am experiencing exactly the same issue which drives me crazy. Changing the variables or editing .emacs has no effect on it. Any idea? Windows 10 with emacs 25.1.1.

Oh by the way, when I followed what was described and load emacs without an init file, i.e. through emacs -Q, then close and launch emacs the usual way, everything works just fine. I got the right cursor shape with the right cursor color. Isnt it weird...