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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:03:53 +1100
From:      Gautam Gopalakrishnan <gautam@inspired.net.au>
To:        loader <loader@www.kuaitech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to stop the cursor of emacs blinking in console?
Message-ID:  <20040220220353.585167fb.gautam@inspired.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040219024439.GA24375@www.kuaitech.com>
References:  <20040218065331.GA19752@www.kuaitech.com> <44eksstrgw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040219024439.GA24375@www.kuaitech.com>

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:44:39 -0800
loader <loader@www.kuaitech.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:03:27AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > loader <loader@www.kuaitech.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I use FreeBSD5.2.1-RC2, and emacs21. How can I stop the cursor
> > > blinking in console?
> > 
> > I thought the default was that it didn't do that on the console...
> > 
> > Check out the blink-* variables; 
> > I think that a .emacs setting of 
> > (blink-cursor-mode nil) 
> > should ensure the disabling of the blinking cursor.
> 
> Thank you for your reply. blink-cursor-mode doesn't work in FreeBSD
> console, it only work in X, because emacs draws the cursor in X
> itself. I don't know why it blinks in console.

I don't know if this will help.

/etc/rc.conf:
cursor="blink"      # cursor type {normal|blink|destructive} (or NO).

Then
/etc/rc.d/syscons restart

Gautam



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