Re: Patch to fix the Bar Cursor Too Narrow problem on Mac OS X

[Chong Yidong]

Ben Key <address@hidden> writes:

> The first thing I noticed when I began using Emacs on Mac OS X was
> that when Emacs is configured to use a bar cursor the cursor is
> difficult to see because it is too narrow, even when the width of the
> bar cursor is specified by using the (bar . WIDTH) syntax when setting
> the value of the cursor-type variable.  The following patch fixes this
> problem.

Thanks.  I'll commit your fix to the comments for ns_draw_window_cursor
shortly, but I don't think the other changes are quite right.

Could you try the following patch instead?

*** src/nsterm.m        2011-02-17 10:19:29 +0000
--- src/nsterm.m        2011-02-19 19:13:36 +0000
***************
*** 2264,2269 ****
--- 2264,2271 ----
        w->phys_cursor_width = 0;
        return;
      }
+   else if (cursor_type == BAR_CURSOR)
+     w->phys_cursor_width = width;
  
    if ((phys_cursor_glyph = get_phys_cursor_glyph (w)) == NULL)
      {