[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: How do you change the cursor?



Glyn  Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> writes:

> Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net> writes:
> 
> > emacs 19, 20, & 21 on my woody boxes all have blinking cursors, which I
> > find annoying.  Oddly enough, emacs 20.7 on my winbox does not blink.  I
> > didn't find anything in the .emacs file that I might have done
> > differently.  So what do I look for, and where?  
> >
> > So, the questions are how do I change the default behavior, what is the
> > command line toggle, and what are the appropriate lines to add to .emacs
> > to override the default?
> >
> > While I'm asking, what about changing the cursor character itself?
> 
> Thi is on Xemacs so may not be relevant but.....
> 
> C-h a gives, amongst other things,
> 
> blink-cursor-mode
> 
> setting this nil should stop it fluttering at you, but there is a warning
> that it "should not" need altering !

You should prob. execute it with M-x blink-cursor-mode instead.

It works on Emacs 21.1

/Jackson


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org



Reply to: