Mercurial > emacs
changeset 75590:a61de5ffbe57
Expand section about Windows system caret changes.
| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:05:46 +0000 |
| parents | 409b8dd974d3 |
| children | a0f90fb2d33d |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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.