From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 05:02:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4543516A422 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:02:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756B143D48 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:02:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (patr530-a065.otenet.gr [212.205.215.65]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k2T52aCZ009448 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:02:46 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2T52Qx9003614; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:02:26 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k2T52N8T003613; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:02:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:02:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: User Elisej , Thomas Dickey Message-ID: <20060329050223.GB3296@gothmog.pc> References: <20060326132831.GB1884@> <20060326164030.GA14035@saltmine.radix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060326164030.GA14035@saltmine.radix.net> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.351, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.85, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xemacs cursor in console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:02:57 -0000 On 2006-03-26 11:40, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:28:31PM +0300, User Elisej wrote: >> I use XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) >> It sets the cursor as large blinking block on its own everytime. >> How to forbid it this? > > It's using the terminal settings (terminfo cvvis, termcap vs) > to see how to do this. FreeBSD provides only rudimentary > support for customizing your terminal description (the > preferred solution); and chosing an alternative description can > be frustrating (apparently the recommended solution ;-) I'm not sure if XEmacs does this too, but GNU Emacs used to set the cursor to "visible" when it fires up. This is what sets the cursor to a large blinking box in FreeBSD consoles. In CVS versions of GNU Emacs this has been fixed with the 'visible-cursor tunable. If this is set to non-nil, the cursor is still set to a large blinking box. If set to nil, then the cursor remains the same as before (my preferred setting). HTH, Giorgos