Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
Nicholas Sandow wrote:
Hello,
When I run EmacsW32 (unpatched, emacs-from-cvs-070125.zip) the cursor
is always a vertical bar, 1 pixel wide, and can't be changed at all
from this type no matter what I try.
For example, trying to change it to the box doesn't work:
(set-frame-parameter nil 'cursor-type 'box)
This also does nothing:
(setq cursor-type 'box)
What's more, when I test this EmacsW32 release on other Windows XP
machines, this problem goes away.
Somehow my Windows XP is configured or patched or whatever to override
Emacs' cursor, or something like that.
I have no idea what this could be and cannot stand this almost
invisible vertical bar cursor. Any clues?
The standard answer: Start Emacs with
emacs -Q
That will avoid running your .emacs. There might be something there that
explains what happens.
Ok. My apologies for not trying that. (Actually I did but of course
forgot to mention that in the first post...)
Starting with emacs.exe -Q that makes no difference. The cursor type
still cannot be changed.
BTW, many thanks for the EmacsW32 project, in particular the regular CVS
build of Emacs.
Nick
