Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 24.15-2 Severity: normal
There is an annoying problem with the library bar-cursor.el. Just loading the bar-cursor library (e.g. when creating the customization buffer for the variable bar-cursor-mode) will change the cursor of the selected frame to a hollow box in emacs-snapshot (not in emacs21). I have an explanation for this undesired behaviour. The defcustom macro at the end of bar-cursor.el calls the function bar-cursor-change, which will in turn modify the frame parameters and set cursor-type to 'block. In Emacs 22, the variable cursor-type has changed and has now the following possible values: t use the cursor specified for the frame nil don't display a cursor box display a filled box cursor hollow display a hollow box cursor bar display a vertical bar cursor with default width (bar . WIDTH) display a vertical bar cursor with width WIDTH hbar display a horizontal bar cursor with default height (hbar . HEIGHT) display a horizontal bar cursor with height HEIGHT ANYTHING ELSE display a hollow box cursor A lot of possible values, but "block" is not among them. IMHO, what bar-cursor-mode would need to do is to take these values into account, save the frame's parameter for the cursor type when turning bar-cursor-mode on and restore it when turning it off. At least for GNU Emacs 21 and 22 (I don't know about XEmacs), it seems to me that a better solution should be possible. Using the variable 'cursor-type', which is buffer-local and overrides the frame's parameter for the cursor, bar-cursor-mode could be turned on and off for each buffer individually, which would be a great improvement. Food for the upstream author, I think! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (3, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el depends on: ii bash 3.0-16 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii emacs-snapshot [emacsen] 1:20050929-1 The GNU Emacs editor (development ii emacs21 [emacsen] 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el recommends: pn dict <none> (no description available) ii perl-doc 5.8.7-5 Perl documentation ii wget 1.10.1-1 retrieves files from the web -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
