Making the emacs cursor into a line

Question

Hi I have been using Emacs23 for some time now and find it a really cool editor. However I am not happy with the cursor (or point in Emacs lingo) being a ' little black box'. I want it to be a nice thin straight line just the way it is in gedit or notepad. Any suggestions on how to do this?

Answer 1

Add this to your .emacs file:

(setq-default cursor-type 'bar)