From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: patrol Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change cursor type Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5ddbef76-f446-443a-9a8c-17511120f692@v37g2000vbv.googlegroups.com> References: <44wruq8zjz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291835001 28254 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:03:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 20:03:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQPIG-0005AG-41 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:03:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPIF-0003sz-GQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:03:11 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v37g2000vbv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.13.226.178 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1274970516 10167 127.0.0.1 (27 May 2010 14:28:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v37g2000vbv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.13.226.178; posting-account=tRtJWQkAAABbewN3eJi0F90kUywr8NrS User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; MathPlayer 2.10d; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178446 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:75849 Archived-At: On May 26, 11:15=A0am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Add to .emacs: > (setq-default cursor-type 'bar) I see. So these variables assignments must be done using Lisp. The Emacs manual is great, but it doesn't make that point clear. Thanks. But why can't you just change the value of any variable using the set- variable command? Why make some variables "user-option" and others not? What's wrong with allowing: M-x set-variable RET cursor-type RET "bar"