Re: Box cursor at EoL

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Yes, you must explicitly access the values of window parameters via
>> the function window-parameter.  They aren't handled as frame
>> parameters are.
>
> Does that mean that even though there is a way  to maintain a frame spe-
> cific cursor appearance  there is no way  to maintain a  window specific
> one? :-(

Exactly: both the `cursor-type` variable and the `cursor-type`
frame-parameters are used by the redisplay code to decide how to draw
the cursor.  But the redisplay code does not look at any
window-parameter for that, so you can't change the cursor-shape on
a "per window" basis :-(

Maybe it's time for `M-x report-emacs-bug` and request a new feature.


        Stefan