Re: address@hidden: Re: [Fwd: vc-annotate causes Emacs to die]]

[Gerd Moellmann]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> > Can I now have the 21.2 cursor shapes back, as I requested a couple of
> > times?  The new cursor shapes for the off-state of the blinking cursor
> > and in non-selected windows drive me up the wall.  Why was that change
> > made, for heaven's sake?
> > 
> 
> Try this patch [X version only, but easily ported to mac and w32].
> 
> It changes cursor-in-non-selected-windows to a lisp object with
> (almost) same values as cursor-type, and adds alternative-cursor-type
> for the "off-state" of the blinking cursor.

Yes, that works nicely.  Thank you very much for writing this, Kim.

May I propose to add X resource names for the cursor types analogous
to `cursorType' (xfns.c, function x_window, I believe)?  And it would be
extra nice if cursor-in-non-selected-windows could be set to
`hollow-box', too.