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Re: cannot turn blink-cursor-mode off on the console
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: cannot turn blink-cursor-mode off on the console |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:53:45 -0700 (MST) |
On the Linux console, (blink-cursor-mode -1) has no effect -- the
cursor keeps on blinking.
That's because the console as implemented by Linux is a text-only
terminal. This command only works on graphics displays, because there
Emacs blinks the cursor itself.
It's possible that termcap and terminfo provide a way to enable
and disable cursor blinking. If so, someone could perhaps make
blink-cursor-mode work on text-only terminals. It doesn't seem
urgent but if someone implements it we could install it.
For now, I will update the command's documentation to say it does not
work on text-only terminals.