On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Emilio Lopes wrote: > Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> writes: > > > [...] > > You need the later development version. Although the first changes to > > use the system caret were made in 2001, a few months before 21.1 was > > released, it was too close to the release to make it into 21.1, and > > subsequent releases have all been bugfix releases. > > > > Here is the documentation of the relevant user option: > > w32-use-visible-system-caret's value is nil > > Flag to make the system caret visible. > When this is non-nil, Emacs will indicate the position of point by > using the system caret instead of drawing its own cursor. Some screen > reader software does not track the system cursor properly when it is > invisible, and gets confused by Emacs drawing its own cursor, so this > variable is initialized to t when Emacs detects that screen reader > software is running as it starts up. > > When this variable is set, other variables affecting the appearance of > the cursor have no effect. > > Defined in `C source code'.
Thanks to both of you for these helpful comments, and to Lennart Borgman who pointed me to the precompiled version at http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html . I've just tried to install the development version I found there, on XP SP2 (non-admin account), keeping all of the defaults except the installation directory, which I put in my user account's filespace. It seemed to install, but then wouldn't run; I get: --------------------------- C:\Documents and Settings\nnair\Emacs\setup\bin\gnuclientw.exe --------------------------- Could not start runemacs --load="C:/Documents and Settings/nnair/Emacs/setup/bin/gnuservauto.el" --------------------------- OK --------------------------- (the above is the result of cutting from a message box with C-c.) Any hints appreciated. I did the installation from an unprivileged account, but since the option it gave me was to do a full installation except anything requiring privileged access, I presumed this would be fine. Cheers, Nikhil. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
