Re: (Un?)Customizing Cursor?

[harven]

"Tim Visher" <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:22 AM, harven <harven@free.fr> wrote:
>
>> If you are launching emacs in a Terminal.app, that's the terminal
>> that takes care of the cursor. And it seems pretty limited, from
>> what I can see. On your windows box, emacs probably starts in its
>> own window, hence there are more options available.
>
> Sorry, I know where the misunderstanding came in.  I was trying to say
> that I originally learned Emacs at the console.  I don't use it there
> anymore.  However, whether on the console or off, the default cursor
> has always been solid while off text, box with reverse video while
> over.
>
>> You may want to install some windowed version of emacs on your mac, either
>> CarbonEmacs, Emacs.app or Aquamacs. It takes only a few minutes
>> and you will recover a nice cursor, among over things.
>> See the wiki for a discussion of the different flavors of emacs under
>> macosx    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS
>>
>> Another workaround is to use another terminal than Apple Terminal.app.
>> If Apple X11 is installed, you can just use a basic xterm and the cursor
>> behaves as expected.
>>
>
> I'm running Emacs.app (GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0,
> *Step 9.0rc3)) at home on my Mac and the default windows binary
> download at work (I believe that's 22).

I don't use Emacs.app so I can't really help here.
Try starting emacs without loading your init file (emacs -Q),
the problem is perhaps there. I can see that there are reports
of cursor bugs on the Emacs.app dev mailing list, but they should
be solved in the last version.