Cursor type in Emacs

Question

What do I put in my .emacs file to change the cursor type for all frames to box?

Answer 1

Before Emacs 23.2, you should do :

(setq default-cursor-type 'box)

Be careful, default-cursor-type is a variable that is obsolete since Emacs 23.2. You should use cursor-type variable instead :

(set-default 'cursor-type 'box)