Re: tty blinking cursor

[Bastien]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Do C-h C-e (`view-emacs-problems'), and search for "*** GNU/Linux:
> Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block."
>
> Maybe you can use some of that information.

I've followed this:

,----[ C-h C-e Emacs on a tty ]
| To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file
| `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send
| the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to
| produce a modified terminfo entry.
`----

.. and it worked well, thank you very much! 

I now have a static cursor.  For some reasons that i don't understand,
this cursor is red, but it could be worse.

> (Shouldn't `visible-cursor' be mentioned there?)

Yes, since (setq visible-cursor nil) produces the same result as
the one expected when you follow this:

,----[ C-h C-e Emacs on a tty ]
| Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor,
| change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command.
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Bastien