Re: CUA mode cursor color

[Ehud Karni]

On 13 May 2002 10:16:51 +0900, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I turned on CUA mode to check it out, and noticed that in addition to
> the behavior I expected -- C-x/C-c/C-v cut 'n' paste -- it also changed
> my cursor color.
> 
> After searching a bit, I found the following in cua-mode.el:
> 
>    ;; CUA mode indications
>    ;; --------------------
>    ;; You can choose to let CUA use different cursor colors to indicate
>    ;; overwrite mode and read-only buffers.
> 
> Why not move this stuff into a separate mode -- then people who don't
> want CUA mode can use it, and people who just want CUA mode won't have
> to go investigate why their cursor color keeps changing.

I second that.

I don't use CUA mode, and I have my own implementation of cursor colors
(my implementation is in lisp). I noticed that the hollow cursor (in an
inactive buffer) changes its color to the active cursor color.

Can anybody fix this and make the cursor-color a buffer local ?

Ehud.


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