Re: Cursor in Splash Screen bug

[Kim F. Storm]

"Dhruva Krishnamurthy" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>  I am using the latest build from the CVS as on 30th Aug 2002 on W2k
>  with MCVC build.
> When Emacs is started, the splash screen comes up as usual. You see an
> ELONGATED cursor blinking which has the height of the Splash screen
> image. This is because the cursor location is at 0 and the image is in
> the same row. A fix would be to set the splash screen image from the
> second row OR set the cursor location to the end of buffer. Better
> still, inhibit the cursor in the startup screen as nothing should/can
> be added there.
> 

This bug is related to RMS' recent change to add the blink-cursor-alist
control the blink-off cursor type.

I have a fix for this which I will commit shortly.
[it includes porting the new feature to the MAC platform as well].


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk