From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change cursor type
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:30:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2ljj99f.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: icd2ljb1lg.fsf@home.home
Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
>>> I want to change the cursor from box to bar
>>> style. Apparently, the variable cursor-type is not
>>> a "user-option" variable and so doesn't respond to
>>> M-x set-variable. I'm not clear on this distinction
>>> between user-option and "non-user-option"
>>> variables, and the manual doesn't seem to say
>>> anything about it (I could be mistaken but I didn't
>>> find anything). Can anyone tell me how to change
>>> the value of cursor-type to "bar"? I'd like the
>>> change to be global. Thanks so much.
>
> Can't tell what this is, except that the original
> post date is May 2010.
OK, well, it is interesting nonetheless. Isn't this
something that has to be setup in the terminal
emulator?
In a Linux VT, which is what I use, I get a block
cursor the same color as the face below (which is
great). But if I run 'emacs -nw' in X, in urxvt, and on
top of tmux, I get the underscore.
I know you can disable cursor blink like this:
(blink-cursor-mode -1)
Although it is probably just as good (better) to do
that in the terminal emulator as well, as in
echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink
in /etc/rc.local (on Debian at least) and...
funny, I can't find either getting the block cursor for
the VTs *or* the X terminals, nor the nonblink. But I
remember I did that. Of course, there has been so much
configuration...
--
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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[not found] <f998fc25-7848-4ac4-8e47-ed4364c7c848@j27g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>
2010-05-26 15:15 ` change cursor type Lowell Gilbert
2010-05-27 14:28 ` patrol
[not found] ` <44ocg1dqmd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
2010-05-28 20:03 ` patrol
2013-11-29 10:08 ` mohamedaslam785
2013-11-29 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-29 16:43 ` Dan Espen
2013-11-29 19:30 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-12-06 13:38 ` Daniel E. Doherty
2013-12-07 2:42 ` Emanuel Berg
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