Emacs changesthe cursor shape

Emacs changesthe cursor shape

[Christopher Zimmermann]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE@euro
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I use SVGATextMode to get a 100x30 text-mode with a block-cursor.
But when I switch to another console after I have started emacs, 
I get a "underline"-cursor. On every console. I can restore the 
block-cursor by just running SVGATextMode, but when I switch again 
between the consoles I will get the same "underline"-cursor on all
consoles. Only emacs has it's block-cursor all the time, but still 
the console it ran on will get a "underline"-cursor after emacs is
ended.

Christopher Zimmermann <madroach@zakweb.de>

Recent input:
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Re: Emacs changesthe cursor shape

[Thomas Dickey]

Christopher Zimmermann <madroach@zakweb.de> wrote:

> I use SVGATextMode to get a 100x30 text-mode with a block-cursor.
> But when I switch to another console after I have started emacs, 
> I get a "underline"-cursor. On every console. I can restore the 
> block-cursor by just running SVGATextMode, but when I switch again 
> between the consoles I will get the same "underline"-cursor on all
> consoles. Only emacs has it's block-cursor all the time, but still 
> the console it ran on will get a "underline"-cursor after emacs is
> ended.

the 'cnorm' string in the terminfo is what I would expect is setting
the underline-cursor.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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