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cursor-type -> frame parameter?

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: cursor-type -> frame parameter?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:14:07 -0400

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Coming from 22, I expected cursor-type to work as buffer-local variable.
That's what it's documented as, and there is no entry in NEWS  
regarding this.

However, setting cursor-type takes no effect.
Having looked at the nsfns.m code, I tried this

(set-frame-parameter nil 'cursor-type 'bar)

and voila, it does the job.

Is this intended and the same across platforms?  if so, a NEWS entry  
would be nice.  (I haven't checked the manual).




In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 (i386-apple-darwin9.4.0, *Step 9.0)
 of 2008-07-19 on scarlett
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x b <return>
<return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> ( s e t q SPC c o
l o r - t y p e C-x C-e q <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> u r s o r - t y p e C-x C-e SPC ' b o x
) C-x C-e <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <return>
( f r a m s <backspace> e - s e t - p a r a e m <backspace>
<backspace> m e t e r C-h f f r a m e - s e t - p <tab>
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <s-backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
s e t - f r a m e - p <tab> a <tab> <return> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <return> <return> ( s e t - f r a m e - p
a r a e m <backspace> <backspace> m e t e r SPC n i
l SPC ' c u r s o r - t y p e SPC ' b a r ) C-x C-e
<return> <return> <up> <down> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> s-c <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<send-emacs-bug-report>

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Message #10 received at 579-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: 579-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#579: cursor-type -> frame parameter?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:03:41 -0400

Fixed using a patch installed on 2008-08-20, which uses the generic  
cursor type rather than an NS specific field.

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