Timeline for I cannot get my text cursor to be a blue blinking box
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| Feb 14 at 21:41 | comment | added | Philippe Carphin | In your Emacs, can you evaluate this sexp: (display-graphic-p)? Then we'll be sure. | |
| Feb 14 at 15:41 | comment | added | user46811 | I am running this on Win11, from a shortcut on the desktop that points to C:\emacs-27p2\x86_64\bin\runemacs.exe so I don't believe it is running from a terminal. If I open a command prompt and run runemacs.exe I get the same behavior. | |
| Feb 14 at 15:27 | comment | added | Philippe Carphin | @user46811 You can't have returns in comments. Also, I have never seen your answer to the question "Are you running Emacs in a terminal?". | |
| Feb 14 at 15:25 | comment | added | user46811 | How do I add line returns to format these comments better, I have tried ctrl-Enter and Alt-enter but those don't work, and Enter simply closes the comment | |
| Feb 14 at 15:23 | comment | added | user46811 | Thank you all for the help with this! I just changed my .emacs file to have only: (setq-default cursor-type 'box) (set-cursor-color "blue") The result is a black vertical line. If I do the steps to describe the cursor as explained in the above thread, the cursor-type returned is `box' and the color is blue. This is a Win11 work laptop configured with whatever extra security they add to make them 'safe'. Perhaps that has something to do with it. | |
| Feb 12 at 2:58 | comment | added | NickD | The problem is that the OP is (AFAICT) the only one who is having this problem (even with emacs -Q which should avoid init file and customization problems altogether). It works for everybody else. So the (almost) inescapable conclusion is that the OP is doing something wrong somehow, somewhere, but neither he nor anybody else has been able to figure out what that is. I suspect it will require an Emacs expert to physically get access to the OP's computer and debug it. | |
| Feb 12 at 0:17 | history | edited | Philippe Carphin | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 206 characters in body |
| Feb 12 at 0:00 | history | answered | Philippe Carphin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |