# HG changeset patch # User Jason Rumney # Date 1170342346 0 # Node ID a61de5ffbe57180c02cb42eddc87411aa8883639 # Parent 409b8dd974d3e054686beafaf495cb9002303b41 Expand section about Windows system caret changes. diff -r 409b8dd974d3 -r a61de5ffbe57 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Thu Feb 01 08:42:47 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Thu Feb 01 15:05:46 2007 +0000 @@ -3716,8 +3716,12 @@ --- ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor. -This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track -the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. +This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the +cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. +When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible +instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by +some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows +the caret visibility to be manually toggled. --- ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.