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 11:32:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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 1336415549 22768 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 18:32:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:32:29 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Xah Lee'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 20:32:28 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 1SRSjT-00089s-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 20:32:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRSjS-0001x0-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 14:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRSjN-0001wv-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 14:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRSjM-0000Sw-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 14:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:41975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRSjL-0000Sq-Tw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 14:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q47IWFxQ026351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 7 May 2012 18:32:16 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q47IWFdS025972 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 7 May 2012 18:32:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q47IWENZ004060; Mon, 7 May 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 07 May 2012 11:32:14 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac0sfgtCkCE0MPQtQTK9dIa4QxExMgAALhLg X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] 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:84757 Archived-At: > GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-04-23 on MARVIN > started with -Q. I tried with this, which is pretty close, if not identical: In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-04-23 on MARVIN Bzr revision: 108006 agustin.martin@hispalinux.es-20120423103325-xmra3329elgzhmpc Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2' > it display cursor as i-beam. Are you sure you don't mean the mouse pointer? The cursor (aka text cursor) is what indicates point, which is where text gets inserted. I see the mouse pointer as an I-beam or an arrow, depending on what the mouse is over. But I see the cursor as a box (by default). > Then, if i paste this > (setq cursor-type 'box) > evaluate it, it has no effect in the display. (but the variable did > get set, verified with describe-variable) See above. My crystal ball is trying to tell me that you are looking at the mouse pointer but setting the text cursor type. You change the mouse pointer shape using variable (not an option) `x-pointer-shape'. But I don't think it is possible to change the pointer shape on MS Windows. See (elisp) `Pointer Shape'.