From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 24: cursor shape is now i Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7fa693f5-662e-410b-b4ef-b7c5b7589d65@googlegroups.com> References: <3daca196-f28c-4a2b-8114-5bfcf83f9363@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492767967 2025 195.159.176.226 (21 Apr 2017 09:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:40:24 +0000 User-Agent: G2/1.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 11:46:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d1V8a-0000NV-1q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:46:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1V8e-0000hI-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:46:04 -0400 X-Received: by 10.129.71.87 with SMTP id u84mr261971ywa.162.1492767624959; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:40:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.25.33 with SMTP id j33mr34659ota.10.1492767624903; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!c45no4499186qtb.1!news-out.google.com!k36ni2139qtb.0!nntp.google.com!c45no4499185qtb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <3daca196-f28c-4a2b-8114-5bfcf83f9363@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=121.122.94.196; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.122.94.196 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219096 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112833 Archived-At: On Tuesday, 18 April 2017 05:24:32 UTC+8, 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? > > >=20 > >=20 > > I am experiencing exactly the same issue which drives me crazy. Changin= g the variables or editing .emacs has no effect on it. Any idea? Windows 10= with emacs 25.1.1. >=20 > 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 righ= t cursor color. Isnt it weird... Emacs may have detected some sort of assistive device (like screen magnifie= r, or a screen reader) active at the time of startup the first time. When such software is detected, Emacs uses a native Windows cursor so that = the assistive software can track the cursor properly and do its job. The variables that control the look of Emacs cursor do not work when the na= tive Windows cursor is being used.