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From: | Greg Hill |
Subject: | Re: why cannot set cursor-type with setq but only with setq-default?????? |
Date: | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:28:26 -0800 |
At 9:34 AM -0800 1/15/03, Christian Seberino wrote:
setq-default is used to set cursor to be a bar rather than a box... (setq-default cursor-type 'bar) How come (setq cursor-type 'bar) doesn't work????
Chris,Apparently cursor-type is automatically buffer-local, so setq changes its value only for the current buffer. setq-default changes its value for all buffers that don't have their own buffer-local version.
cursor-type as a variable seems to be new to emacs-21. I didn't even know it existed until you asked this question. Before 21 you had to use modify-frame-parameters to change it. I have not been able to find any documentation on cursor-type as a variable other than in emacs-21's interactive help. Can you point us to some? Thanks.
--Greg
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