diff man/display.texi @ 67937:cee5814efd02

(Displaying the Cursor): Mention visible-cursor.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:05:31 +0000
parents 42ea65c4e348
children 87b296ffb009 7beb78bc1f8e
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--- a/man/display.texi	Fri Dec 30 21:54:32 2005 +0000
+++ b/man/display.texi	Fri Dec 30 22:05:31 2005 +0000
@@ -1014,6 +1014,13 @@
 You can control how the cursor appears when it blinks off by setting
 the variable @code{blink-cursor-alist}.
 
+@vindex visible-cursor
+  Some text terminals offer two different cursors: the normal cursor
+and the very visible cursor, where the latter may be e.g. bigger or
+blinking.  By default Emacs uses the very visible cursor.  Setting the
+variable @code{visible-cursor} to @code{nil} makes it use the
+normal cursor.
+
 @cindex cursor in non-selected windows
 @vindex cursor-in-non-selected-windows
   Normally, the cursor appears in non-selected windows in the ``off''