# HG changeset patch
# User Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
# Date 1135980331 0
# Node ID cee5814efd026838c17e40dee38b24a46565a260
# Parent  07ec77ecb7b503c79c55643ea902ad277b5d74e3
(Displaying the Cursor): Mention visible-cursor.

diff -r 07ec77ecb7b5 -r cee5814efd02 man/display.texi
--- 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''