how to change the cursor color on emacs

Question

I made some changes in Emacs's colors and the only thing wrong now is the cursor that is black on black background and I will have to change that. What do I do?

Answer 1

If you are running a recent version of emacs you can use:

; Set cursor color to white (set-cursor-color "#ffffff")  

Instead of #ffffff you can use any color you like. For a list of hex code google Says: http://www.tayloredmktg.com/rgb/

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Maybe you like this one... the following code changes the cursor color on each blink. Just eval code and its running:

; Using in Emacs 24.0   (defvar blink-cursor-colors (list  "#92c48f" "#6785c5" "#be369c" "#d9ca65")   "On each blink the cursor will cycle to the next color in this list.")  (setq blink-cursor-count 0) (defun blink-cursor-timer-function ()   "Zarza wrote this cyberpunk variant of timer `blink-cursor-timer'.  Warning: overwrites original version in `frame.el'.  This one changes the cursor color on each blink. Define colors in `blink-cursor-colors'."   (when (not (internal-show-cursor-p))     (when (>= blink-cursor-count (length blink-cursor-colors))       (setq blink-cursor-count 0))     (set-cursor-color (nth blink-cursor-count blink-cursor-colors))     (setq blink-cursor-count (+ 1 blink-cursor-count))     )   (internal-show-cursor nil (not (internal-show-cursor-p)))   ) 

Note that this code replaces the emacs function 'blink-cursor-timer-function' from 'frame.el'.