Re: Application of 'cursor-type.

[Joel Reicher]

Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> I am having difficulty understanding the application of 
> 'cursor-type.
>
> I want to call the function on the current buffer to change the 
> cursor  form upon the buffer I am working with.  I use 
> set-default which affects those buffers which do not have local 
> binding of 'cursor-type.  But how would I know whether there is 
> a local binding or not?  If there is a local binding and want to 
> change it, would one use setq instead.

One of the functions mentioned on

(elisp) Creating Buffer-Local

will give you that information.

Regards,

       - Joel