Re: Block cursor in a tty

[Juri Linkov]

>         Does anybody know why Emacs insists on using the
>         big-block-cursor rather than using whatever the user has
>         selected as default?
>
>     vs was defined specifically to be used by full-screen editors to
>     make the cursor more visible.
>
>     The default cursor is for sequential input.  With sequential input,
>     you know which line to look in, so it is easier to see the cursor;
>     thus, it does not need extra visibility.
>
> Can we at least make it a customizable option?  I didn't look very much
> into this, but it sure felt annoying when I first set the default cursor
> of my consoles to non-block mode and found out that Emacs appeared to
> 'reset' the cursor to block mode.

Yes, it is annoying when Emacs overrides the default console cursor.
When the default console cursor is configured to non-blinking,
Emacs changes it to the blinking cursor.

A new customizable option or at least a command line option would be
a good thing.

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