Block cursor in a tty

[Stefan Monnier]

Several people have complained on gnu.emacs.help that Emacs uses an ugly big
block cursor in their terminal emulator even after they've configured their
terminal emulator to use a more subdued cursor.

It turns out that the reason for it is that Emacs uses the termcap "vs"
command to make the cursor visible rather than "ve".  My manpages describe
the two commands as follows:

       cursor_normal                 cnorm      ve        make cursor appear
                                                          normal (undo
                                                          civis/cvvis)
       [...]
       cursor_visible                cvvis      vs        make cursor very
                                                          visible

Does anybody know why Emacs insists on using the big-block-cursor rather
than using whatever the user has selected as default?


        Stefan