Re: [h-e-w] Emacs cursor turns into a vertical line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John J. Xenakis <hewreg@jxenakis.com>
> Cc: jxenakis123@gmail.com
> 
> >   Is this a GUI frame or a text-mode (a.k.a. -nw) frame?
> 
> It's a GUI frame.  Emacs is invoked with:
> 
> >   "DDD1\emacs-25.1.2\bin\runemacs" --no-splash --load DDD2\init.el
> 
> where DDD1 and DDD2 are local directories.

What happens if you invoke it like this (from the cmd.exe prompt):

  emacs -Q

Also, what is the value of w32-use-visible-system-caret?

> When I click on Help | About Emacs, I get:
> 
> >   GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-w64-mingw32) of 2016-11-15
> 
> I downloaded the Emacs software on 22-Mar-2017 and installed it on
> my Windows 7 system, and reinstalled the same zip file on my Windows
> 10 system last year.
> 
> The file that I installed was emacs-25.1-2-i686-w64-mingw32.zip
> that I downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/.
> 
> Looking at that directory now, I see that it has several more recent
> subdirectories, and I could upgrade Emacs to any of a number of
> different files and versions.  What would be the best one?

I guess this one:

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.1-x86_64.zip