Re: turning off some new features

[Michael Slass]

"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:

>Hello all,
>
>I just upgraded to redhat 7.3 and I believe it uses emacs21.2-2. Can
>anyone tell me how to change a few things in this new version?
>First, I would like to take out this graphical menu that appears here
>like x-emacs. Second, the cursor keeps blinking and I have edited the
>.emacs folder to shut this off but that's not working.
>If anyone could give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it.
>
>bp
>


Hi:

I'm guessing that by "graphical menu" you're referring to the tool
bar.  You can turn that off with (tool-bar-mode -1).


As for the cursor, when I do
M-x apropos RET cursor RET
I get this:

,----
| <snip>
| blink-cursor
|   Variable: *Non-nil means blinking cursor mode is active.
|   Plist: standard-value variable-documentation custom-tag custom-type 
custom-set custom-requests
| blink-cursor-delay
|   Variable: *Seconds of idle time after which cursor starts to blink.
|   Plist: standard-value variable-documentation custom-tag custom-type 
custom-requests
| blink-cursor-end
|   Function: Stop cursor blinking.
| blink-cursor-idle-timer
|   Variable: Timer started after `blink-cursor-delay' seconds of Emacs idle 
time.
|   Plist: variable-documentation
| blink-cursor-interval
|   Variable: *Length of cursor blink interval in seconds.
|   Plist: standard-value variable-documentation custom-tag custom-type 
custom-requests
| blink-cursor-mode
|   Command: Toggle blinking cursor mode.
|   Variable: Non-nil means blinking cursor is active.
|   Plist: variable-documentation
| blink-cursor-start
|   Function: Timer function called from the timer `blink-cursor-idle-timer'.
| blink-cursor-timer
|   Variable: Timer started from `blink-cursor-start'.
|   Plist: variable-documentation
| blink-cursor-timer-function
|   Function: Timer function of timer `blink-cursor-timer'.
| <snip>
`----

I'm pretty sure your answers lie in the docs for one or more of these
variables.


-- 
Mike Slass