From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs 24: cursor shape is now i Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 07:51:50 -0700 Message-ID: <8E974E18A84D468192101905868B0A07@us.oracle.com> References: <87havst5j7.fsf@xc.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336402327 6824 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 14:52:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:52:07 +0000 (UTC) To: "'XeCycle'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 16:52:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPIC-0005Ri-3G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 16:52:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPIB-0007Ag-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPI6-0007AM-PX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPI4-0001uR-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:36896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPI4-0001u0-95 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q47Epq73030635 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 7 May 2012 14:51:53 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q47EppBu017235 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 7 May 2012 14:51:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt113.oracle.com (abhmt113.oracle.com [141.146.116.65]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q47EppbB031929; Mon, 7 May 2012 09:51:51 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 07 May 2012 07:51:51 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87havst5j7.fsf@xc.laptop> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac0sYB7escUGHlVGTLC04b8RaWhocgAAJgwg X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84754 Archived-At: > > 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. > Did you forget that it's buffer-local? I too do not see any such change. The behavior with `emacs -Q' seems to be the same on Emacs 23, 24 pretest, and latest 24 build, all on Windows. Check your init file, to be sure you are not doing something that affects this behavior.