comparison etc/NEWS @ 75590:a61de5ffbe57

Expand section about Windows system caret changes.
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:05:46 +0000
parents 5d87b83ca1ea
children 4f39aeb27f75
comparison
equal deleted inserted replaced
75589:409b8dd974d3 75590:a61de5ffbe57
3714 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry. 3714 irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry.
3715 3715
3716 --- 3716 ---
3717 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor. 3717 ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
3718 3718
3719 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track 3719 This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the
3720 the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. 3720 cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
3721 When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible
3722 instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by
3723 some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows
3724 the caret visibility to be manually toggled.
3721 3725
3722 --- 3726 ---
3723 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows. 3727 ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
3724 3728
3725 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details. 3729 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.