Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> In emacs 24, the cursor shape seems to have changed from a solid box
> to i-beam?
>
> however, setting the following won't work?
>
> (setq cursor-type 'box)
> (setq cursor-type 'bar)

Works for me.

> any hints on what's going on?

Did you forget that it's buffer-local?

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