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I have configured helm to hide the minibuffer and show the input in the header line following this instructions.

The relevant code is this:

(defun helm-hide-minibuffer-maybe () (when (with-helm-buffer helm-echo-input-in-header-line) (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max) nil nil t))) (overlay-put ov 'window (selected-window)) (overlay-put ov 'face (let ((bg-color (face-background 'default nil))) `(:background ,bg-color :foreground ,bg-color))) (setq-local cursor-type nil)))) (add-hook 'helm-minibuffer-set-up-hook 'helm-hide-minibuffer-maybe)

I want the cursor-type to be of type 'bar but setting this in the code above just yields an additional cursor with type 'bar in the minibuffer. The cursor in the helm header line is still a 'box. How to solve this?

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    I think the "cursor* in header line is fake (use something like (propertize " " 'face 'cursor)), the real cursor still is in minibuffer, so change that text properties (from function helm--set-header-line) instead of cursor-type. Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 16:35
  • Related issue github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/1198 Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 17:04

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It turns out that changing the appearance of the cursor to a bar is not possible [reference]. If one really don't want a box an underline is possible instead. For this change the relevant part inhelm--set-header-line function to this:

(put-text-property ;; Increment pos to handle the space before prompt (i.e `pref'). (1+ pos) (+ 2 pos) 'face 'underline header-line-format)
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