From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Box cursor at EoL Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:18:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <25405.40924.299467.425535@tux.local> <25407.58176.221509.11918@tux.local> <83pmf3opll.fsf@gnu.org> <25408.15924.69822.546181@tux.local> <83k05bmypp.fsf@gnu.org> <25409.15569.845188.675783@tux.local> <83edvillw7.fsf@gnu.org> <25409.17643.579815.406872@tux.local> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39662"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KzmoS5r/SK7+2JjEp2VS7ChUWig= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 15:20:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oh9l0-000A91-V4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:20:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60928 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oh9kz-0001Jw-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oh9iY-0001JW-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:47476) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oh9iX-0006uh-90 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oh9iS-0006wB-SJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:18:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139764 Archived-At: >> Yes, you must explicitly access the values of window parameters via >> the function window-parameter. They aren't handled as frame >> parameters are. > > Does that mean that even though there is a way to maintain a frame spe- > cific cursor appearance there is no way to maintain a window specific > one? :-( Exactly: both the `cursor-type` variable and the `cursor-type` frame-parameters are used by the redisplay code to decide how to draw the cursor. But the redisplay code does not look at any window-parameter for that, so you can't change the cursor-shape on a "per window" basis :-( Maybe it's time for `M-x report-emacs-bug` and request a new feature. Stefan