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From: Rick Mohr <Rick@RickMohr.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Changing pointer shape in Windows
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E24187.2000508@RickMohr.net> (raw)

Emacs 21 used the "arrow" pointer everywhere, but Emacs 22 uses the "I-beam" pointer over text. How can I get Emacs 22 to use the "arrow" pointer over text?

This doesn't seem to work:

(setq x-pointer-shape 132) ; top_left_arrow
(set-mouse-color "white")

I want to use the arrow pointer because (1) I'm used to it, and (2) the I-beam pointer behaves differently than in other windows applications. In Emacs, clicking on any part of a character places the cursor before that character. In other windows applications, clicking on the left half of a character places the cursor before that character but clicking on the right half of a character places the cursor after that character.

Any help appreciated. Thanks, 

-Rick




             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30 15:11 Rick Mohr [this message]
2008-10-01 17:50 ` Changing pointer shape in Windows Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-02 12:39   ` Rick Mohr
2008-10-03 14:20     ` Nikolaj Schumacher

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