From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 16:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <97407bf7-bac5-4e96-895c-a8178c98ded7@googlegroups.com> References: <86vb1x4czm.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464884383 702 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 16:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:19:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 18:19:38 2016 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 1b8VLG-0006nJ-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:19:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8VLF-0004eK-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:19:29 -0400 X-Received: by 10.31.15.148 with SMTP id 142mr19737242vkp.13.1464649324036; Mon, 30 May 2016 16:02:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.53.137 with SMTP id k131mr130498ita.0.1464649323953; Mon, 30 May 2016 16:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q32no1581378qgq.0!news-out.google.com!g40ni151qge.1!nntp.google.com!p34no562511qgp.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <86vb1x4czm.fsf@student.uu.se> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=122.56.211.95; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.56.211.95 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 23:02:03 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217917 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:110254 Archived-At: On Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 6:03:45 PM UTC+12, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Davin Pearson writes: > > > I entered the following command: > > > > (blink-cursor-mode -1) > > > > but it doesn't turn cursor blinking off. > > > > What gives? > > Yeah, Emacs can't set that in all contexts. > > Do you run a Unix system? > > If so, do you run the GUI version, or do you > run it with -nw (or a -nox binary) in > a terminal emulator (e.g., xterm)? > > Or do you run it in a Linux VT ("the console" > or ttys)? > > Or do you run it in another way still? > > It should always work in the GUI version tho > I don't have it so I can't/don't want to verify > that. (But it is doable in the xterm and VTs as > well, for sure.) > > By the way, the help (in this case `C-h f') is > your friend: > > This command [`blink-cursor-mode'] is > effective only on graphical frames. > On text-only terminals, cursor blinking is > controlled by the terminal. Yes I am running Emacs version 23.1.1 on a GUI version, so cursor blinking should really be turned off when you enter the command: (blink-cursor-mode -1)