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
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