From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:24:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <861soitdq1.fsf@zoho.com> <86o9rmruil.fsf@zoho.com> <86bmnlsz31.fsf@zoho.com> <86zib4bwaq.fsf@zoho.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502555099 27790 195.159.176.226 (12 Aug 2017 16:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 16:24:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 18:24:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZDV-0006eP-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:24:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZDb-00061n-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZD8-000606-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZD5-0005DW-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:62138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgZD5-0005DP-A4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus001 [74.208.5.2]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M8jvO-1dm1mb0WZo-00C6TK for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:24:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <86zib4bwaq.fsf@zoho.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:0mqpbw0sgZaShbnmKV3PKBchSG+FDGJOGK2SYqijtJXdLIrrpoj m1490R3y/HlqJ7BLPkJb90atCINqmFmbOqTihTmuJEeXQkhA7DbTCl/TunKENgau4BJvGRJ zXLW/3J1JT+5W5v0sTwYXCmoOwZR+bT6GJJfRvEiN/8ow1Xq+ZHardbXhPwI6K79uzHY/QH 5m6nPxoQ+bk11X7J2RM4Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:q4dyKEdzKe4=:pX9t4dHav5+kOUjFhE3unH ezCxFzaezlSI/AJ3JgPoTR9Gh0HhAAFMhnU1wugGDKOfarrTxpzsXrHmhV4lhX0k91cjpmrRD OWo7g2nZj8x7LIoUefY11Oqn5KIXbGVMtC7N6CixjGDWKtKeks/FpxNExCShRXunxqCJLLeqI MhOOJtRFIJd3+DoQVEjsoIWU2o9cuh3zGRSkJebJ2rpDx3ziRHUTxTee51izIWFkTtU9Rzo1f hVmb+4Uhi8WxNmYHf1F3fDBd6h1oX41iIM/+gNvnbNKQ6QdbgODfsuMvclZwjR4wRNVQlcs/8 XKew8pmgj67hxxqVS5d6zSMe//A+K4mum6C7OD+nnafZ5T0Om8BwIBZYNG8wdsl1y/4Efmv5t mPPkVlUW2RZzLWR1Fgm5ZNsA/vsa/QOJ9vnWEgIiam87WRP+Aup341T+efB/ng8Fp4uxtDf2w ZuWYLFutLgum+aGZuuHojqIIiFYaBu724reJ7hBaN6GsMBx+Dl6Ly9MdAVWYQ7Op4x4zhbivQ 2JC7GAbMEvwz7cENB1JTqIZGxfCMDIF+kiJwcstoIW0l8yIKFfhmmXH6w7PhNFB7NsjuaGdb+ VEMU8PolxELX2/6IGzsJyWtzCjMTc2YI1xxrkLeDuvUUE7KEH7j4zN2GRxn+qs95HIyveJiq8 QcAfPoAku+L7PEo23rvRtzQZgOzQEz7M7vwrWRTo8kmL2qi5pvBtI8lfE0VDUowtlmIFWxZCg lmIsVc05iGmqq7pxDHuvTS6wPLPQyAWH3M7FsGtgpgFqdDoXTVuPqLR2ALw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.194 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:114014 Archived-At: On 08/12/2017 12:11 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > ken wrote: > >> (set-cursor-color COLOR-NAME) >> >> [...] >> >> If someone preferred to place a statement in >> .emacs to accomplish the goal-- rather than >> "customizing"-- what should the above >> documentation say? > ... > > But don't you want the cursor to take on the > color of text? No, as I said, I want the color of the cursor to be limegreen: > Having a fairly large screen and often many windows open, it's > sometimes difficult to find the cursor in an emacs window. So I > thought limegreen would be a more discernible color for a cursor than > the default black. So I put this in my .emacs: > > (set-cursor-color "limegreen") > > However, the result is that only the first emacs window loaded has a > limegreen cursor. All the others subsequent have the default black > cursor. Running the same function in each emacs buffer does correctly > yield a limegreen cursor, but not a practical solution when I have > twenty or thirty buffers open, each in its own window (or frame). It's really quite simple... to understand at least. Maybe though the elisp which is needed to put in my .emacs is too complicated to determine?