trying to turn cursor blinking off

trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Davin Pearson]

I entered the following command:

(blink-cursor-mode -1)

but it doesn't turn cursor blinking off.

What gives?

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Emanuel Berg]

Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> 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.

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Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Davin Pearson]

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)

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 19:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
> 
> I entered the following command:
> 
> (blink-cursor-mode -1)
> 
> but it doesn't turn cursor blinking off.

It does here.

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Alex Kost]

Davin Pearson (2016-05-29 05:38 +0300) wrote:

> I entered the following command:
>
> (blink-cursor-mode -1)
>
> but it doesn't turn cursor blinking off.

As Eli said it does, so I wonder how did you "enter" this command?

Try to evaluate it now by: "M-: (blink-cursor-mode -1)"

Did you put it into your ".emacs"?  If so, are you sure that your emacs
config was loaded successfully?

-- 
Alex

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Davin Pearson]

Executing  "M-: (blink-cursor-mode -1)" doesn't turn the cursor
blinking off.  Is it something to do with which version of Emacs
that I am running, which is 23.1.1.

On 5 June 2016 at 00:26, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:

> Davin Pearson (2016-05-29 05:38 +0300) wrote:
>
> > I entered the following command:
> >
> > (blink-cursor-mode -1)
> >
> > but it doesn't turn cursor blinking off.
>
> As Eli said it does, so I wonder how did you "enter" this command?
>
> Try to evaluate it now by: "M-: (blink-cursor-mode -1)"
>
> Did you put it into your ".emacs"?  If so, are you sure that your emacs
> config was loaded successfully?
>
> --
> Alex
>



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Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Alex Kost]

Davin Pearson (2016-06-05 05:45 +0300) wrote:

> Executing  "M-: (blink-cursor-mode -1)" doesn't turn the cursor
> blinking off.  Is it something to do with which version of Emacs
> that I am running, which is 23.1.1.

Although it's an ancient version (I recommend to upgrade :-)),
blink-cursor-mode should work there anyway.

Did you try with "emacs -Q"?

-- 
Alex

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Davin Pearson]

Yes and guess what: It works!

so there must be a bug somewhere in my code.

I dread having to do a binary search on my code to find the bug.

On 5 June 2016 at 20:28, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:

> Davin Pearson (2016-06-05 05:45 +0300) wrote:
>
> > Executing  "M-: (blink-cursor-mode -1)" doesn't turn the cursor
> > blinking off.  Is it something to do with which version of Emacs
> > that I am running, which is 23.1.1.
>
> Although it's an ancient version (I recommend to upgrade :-)),
> blink-cursor-mode should work there anyway.
>
> Did you try with "emacs -Q"?
>
> --
> Alex
>



-- 
Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin.
Davin Pearson    http://davin.50webs.com

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-06-05, at 10:40, Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> wrote:

> I dread having to do a binary search on my code to find the bug.

Would this help?

https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

Re: trying to turn cursor blinking off

[Davin Pearson]

I found the bug pretty quickly actually.

On 5 June 2016 at 22:48, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

>
> On 2016-06-05, at 10:40, Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I dread having to do a binary search on my code to find the bug.
>
> Would this help?
>
> https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>



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Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin.
Davin Pearson    http://davin.50webs.com