Re: change cursor type when idle

[Juri Linkov]

>> I'm not against merging this with cua-mode by moving it to a separate
>> package like cua-cursor (isn't using a box cursor in overwrite mode
>> a CUA thing?)
>
> If merging, it seems better to rip out the CUA code and make it an
> independent feature.  CUA sorely needs a good refactoring to rid it of
> all the stuff which has nothing to do with CUA... [I seem to recall Kim
> said it wasn't that easy, though.]

While searching for the bug report about the cursor type, I've found
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-05/msg00034.html
where Kim said it is tied to the cua's global-mark feature.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/