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Blinking cursors can be quite irritating. It is easy to switch blinking off with blink-cursor-mode (or maybe customize it ...). But with larger screens, it is often difficult to locate the cursor-position. So, well, blinking might make sense after all.
However, what is visually very irritating is that blinking is done by switching between a full rectangle (or bar) and nothing. When you now compare C-x 3 like side-by-side two buffers, the selected buffer has sometimes the rectangle and sometimes not. So you cannot easily look to one side and then the other ; you have to wait for the cursor to "reappear". That is very irritating.
So my question is: Is it possible have blinking switch between full-rectangle and something related? Lighter-colored rectangle? It should not be hollow-rectangle because this is used in the other buffer.
(I am using 23.1)
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Alternatively referred to as a caret, a cursor or text cursor is a blinking horizontal or vertical line ( ) that indicates where new text starts when you begin to type. For example, below is an empty text box, clicking in this box gives you a text cursor to indicate you can start typing.
So here is the way to do it: 1. M-x customize-face , enter 2. cursor enter 3. choose the background color of you liking.
This is possible from 24.1 on.
The blink-cursor-alist permits to specify for each on-type an off-type.
Thanks to @RobertHarvey for pointing this out.
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