Re: Block cursor in a tty

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Can we at least make it a customizable option?  I didn't look very much
    into this, but it sure felt annoying when I first set the default cursor
    of my consoles to non-block mode and found out that Emacs appeared to
    'reset' the cursor to block mode.

You can certainly control this by changing the termcap entry.

Could the terminal emulator let you specify how the visual mode
cursor should look?