From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (Un?)Customizing Cursor? Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:32:28 +0100 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229704919 21903 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2008 16:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:41:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 17:43:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDiQz-0005Xc-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:42:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDiPn-0004qU-LC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:41:27 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp9-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VJptuwmhwzBAGs2Uz4jvcypFbmc= Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Dec 2008 17:32:28 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.240.200.149 Original-X-Trace: 1229704348 news-3.free.fr 850 82.240.200.149:50214 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165525 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60857 Archived-At: "Tim Visher" writes: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:22 AM, harven wrote: > >> If you are launching emacs in a Terminal.app, that's the terminal >> that takes care of the cursor. And it seems pretty limited, from >> what I can see. On your windows box, emacs probably starts in its >> own window, hence there are more options available. > > Sorry, I know where the misunderstanding came in. I was trying to say > that I originally learned Emacs at the console. I don't use it there > anymore. However, whether on the console or off, the default cursor > has always been solid while off text, box with reverse video while > over. > >> You may want to install some windowed version of emacs on your mac, either >> CarbonEmacs, Emacs.app or Aquamacs. It takes only a few minutes >> and you will recover a nice cursor, among over things. >> See the wiki for a discussion of the different flavors of emacs under >> macosx http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS >> >> Another workaround is to use another terminal than Apple Terminal.app. >> If Apple X11 is installed, you can just use a basic xterm and the cursor >> behaves as expected. >> > > I'm running Emacs.app (GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0, > *Step 9.0rc3)) at home on my Mac and the default windows binary > download at work (I believe that's 22). I don't use Emacs.app so I can't really help here. Try starting emacs without loading your init file (emacs -Q), the problem is perhaps there. I can see that there are reports of cursor bugs on the Emacs.app dev mailing list, but they should be solved in the last version.