From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 24: cursor shape is now i Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336414816 16832 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 18:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:20:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 20:20:16 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 1SRSXd-0001rA-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 20:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRSXc-0007Jo-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 14:20:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o5g2000pbj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336414640 23239 127.0.0.1 (7 May 2012 18:17:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o5g2000pbj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192348 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:84756 Archived-At: On May 7, 7:44=A0am, XeCycle wrote: > Xah Lee 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? > Carl Lei (XeCycle) thanks Carl Lei and Drew Adams. it's strange. this is GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-04-23 on MARVIN started with -Q. it display cursor as i-beam. 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) i found on the web another guy who had similar problem http://sinewalker.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/curious-cursor-complication-with= -emacs-and-windows-magnifier/ but mine isn't related to Windows magnifier he speaks of. I don't have that turned on. Xah