Re: cursor-in-non-selected-windows as buffer-local

[Gerd Moellmann]

address@hidden writes:

> When cursor-in-non-selected-windows is made buffer-local, it will turn
> off cursors in other windows if it is set to nil in the context of the
> selected window.  I, on the other hand, would prefer to mark a
> particular buffer as not having a visible cursor unless it is
> selected.  This would entail changing x_display_and_set_cursor to use
> the value of cursor-in-non-selected-windows relative to the buffer in
> the window it is drawing the cursor in, instead of the value based on
> the currently selected buffer.
> 
> On the other hand, if the original semantics are still desirable, then
> cursor-in-non-selected-windows should be made non-boolean, and there
> should be a particular symbol to set it to in order to get my desired
> behavior.
> 
> Any comments?  I posted to emacs-devel rather than emacs-bug because I
> am willing to do the coding for this.

I think this is more something for the `cursor-type' variable.  Have
you already noticed it?