From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Box cursor at EoL Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:53:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmf6rz4g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <25405.40924.299467.425535@tux.local> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28572"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 19:22:15 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1og863-0007JU-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:22:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59074 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og862-0005vp-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:22:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og7dp-00041k-Rz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og7dn-0001jV-PR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:53:05 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=8YoDPfzkt3nhyyKKeHKMfgblA2TCeHbWr9HqR0pTbtc=; b=d/Fm4VNPHiBL bOMnFQYVse3JDxi5tXyTp0R5aqcJbvuBmQJdS8OCuDymz5SK8zRAjbdkVp3lKXUdldEZLpC5KQVRF 2b1PSo/mWkej7cqKa2aXBKAs02IHWHgEdJg7XupLMxzNGVrtc2K0ua+KfUqprCbSjCaAd7HKRoKOM ouW+R+eSFqHkYRPulLIYZRkSPGwHJiz/SdilWxgSgj2QlhtslVoASb7LtTX8dkfgCCw9hNZEIm3yi v7Yx71S8CCKJgr4LqD9xRLdNPsbDzX1bEHyavdwgTVWEd8CMYxVaMbR7aJAEnUZnJdI2aUBRCWPYn JMP3DajtxGVJWEDum0EHYA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3730 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1og7dn-0007ed-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:53:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <25405.40924.299467.425535@tux.local> (message from Dr Rainer Woitok on Wed, 5 Oct 2022 17:16:44 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139723 Archived-At: > From: Dr Rainer Woitok > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 17:16:44 +0200 > > being in the process of "converting" from XEmacs to Emacs I currently am > missing XEmacs' habbit of using a different cursor shape for a cursor > sitting on an invisible EoL character as opposed to a cursor sitting on > an as invisible trailing blank. I always loved this feature of XEmacs > because I've always hated unnoticed trailing blanks :-) If this is only because you want to see the trailing blanks, then customize show-trailing-whitespace to a non-nil value, and these trailing blanks will be shown in distinct color.