Re: How do you change the cursor?

[Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>]

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 !

hth


Glyn
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