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23.0.60; cursor-type

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

From: "Gilbert Harman" <harman <at> princeton.edu>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; cursor-type
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:07:18 -0400

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(setq default-cursor-type 'hbar)

does not yield the desired cursor-type, at least in Emacs.app.  The cursor
continues to be a block cursor.

In the current Carbon Emacs this works (GNU Emacs
22.2.50.1(i386-apple-darwin9.4.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-07-16
on
seijiz.local).

(What I would really like is a horizontal line cursor (not a bar or box),
but I don't see how to get that either in the current Emacs.app or Carbon
Emacs.)

  Gil

No crash.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.4.0, *Step 9.0)
 of 2008-08-12 on GH-iMAC.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 49.46.48
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: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: 1
  recentf-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  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
  blink-cursor-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:
C-a C-n C-p <tab> <tab> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-e C-n C-n C-e
SPC SPC B u t SPC t <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> T h a t SPC w o r k s SPC i
n SPC C a r b o n SPC b u t SPC n o t SPC E m a c s
. a p p . C-x C-s C-p C-a C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-f C-d C-f C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d i f SPC I C-e
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-d , C-d M-l C-x C-s C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-x C-g C-h v d e f a u l t <tab>
c u r <tab> t y p e <tab> <return> C-g M-: ( d e f
a u l t - v a l u e SPC ' c u r s o r - t y p e ) <return>
C-x 1 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> M-c C-x C-s C-v C-b
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-SPC C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-g
C-SPC C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f M-w <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
Quit
hbar
Auto-saving...done
Saving file /Users/gilbertharman/Current/diary...
Wrote /Users/gilbertharman/Current/diary
call-interactively: End of buffer
Mark set
Quit
Mark set

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Message #10 received at 721 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: Gilbert Harman <harman <at> princeton.edu>, 721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#721: 23.0.60; cursor-type
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:08:33 +0100

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On 14 Aug 2008, at 19:07, Gilbert Harman wrote:

> (setq default-cursor-type 'hbar)
>
> does not yield the desired cursor-type, at least in Emacs.app.  The  
> cursor continues to be a block cursor.
>
> In the current Carbon Emacs this works (GNU Emacs 22.2.50.1 (i386- 
> apple-darwin9.4.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-07-16 on  
> seijiz.local).


Yes, it's a known problem and I've been working on a patch.   There  
are still some issues with redisplay.

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Message #15 received at 721 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Gilbert Harman <harman <at> princeton.edu>
Cc: 721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#721: 23.0.60; cursor-type
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:52:43 -0400

> (setq default-cursor-type 'hbar)

[ Off topic ]

Note that I strongly recommend to avoid the above form and use
(setq-default cursor-type 'hbar) instead.  It won't work any better, but
this form works for all variables rather than only for the few that have
a default-FOO variant.


        Stefan

Message #27 received at 721-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 721-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: #721 - 23.0.60; cursor-type - Emacs bug report logs
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:52:52 -0400

Fixed with changes by Adrian Robert on 2008-10-02.

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