Re: cursor doesn't show through transparent images in emacs 22, unlike emacs 21

[David Kastrup]

"Ken Manheimer" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 8/19/06, Ken Manheimer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 8/19/06, Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > "Ken Manheimer" <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>> > > i don't know how to get anything but the outermost pixels of the
>> > > cursor to show behind transparent images in emacs 22, while the cursor
>> > > body shows through the transparent part of images in emacs 21.
>> >
>> > In emacs 22, we don't show a block cursor on images; instead we just
>> > put a border on the image.  The rationale is that the old behaviour was
>> > really ugly in most cases ... particularly when using a blinking cursor.
>> >
>> > Is this something you really need?
>>
>> yes.  it's terrible the way it is.
>
> the two pictures show views of the same buffer, one with the cursor in
> the window, the other with the cursor in another window.  they're
> indistinguishable.  not good.

Have you disabled cursor blinking?

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