Re: change cursor type when idle

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Feb 12, 2008 5:43 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hold your horses.  You trimmed too much of the context of my reply,

Sorry. Was not my intention.

> I
> was referring to exactly one such color: `cua-read-only-cursor-color'.
> It's easy enough to know that the buffer is read only, you can't type in
> it.  Does changing the cursor color add any extra useful visual clue?

Yes, it does for me. I often have two almost identical buffers open,
and switch from one to the other. But I want one of them to be
read-only, and the visual clue is helpful (not to prevent trying to
write into the read-only one, but to speed switching among them). I
have in fact this in my .emacs:

(setq cua-normal-cursor-color    '(box . "white")
      cua-overwrite-cursor-color '(hollow . "red")
      cua-read-only-cursor-color '(hollow . "yellow"))

             Juanma