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Hi I have been using Emacs23 for some time now and find it a really cool editor. However I am not happy with the cursor (or point in Emacs lingo) being a ' little black box'. I want it to be a nice thin straight line just the way it is in gedit or notepad. Any suggestions on how to do this?

Sujoy
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smilingbuddha
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    This question will most likely get closed as belonging on superuser or some such. It's not really programing related. – beggs Nov 16 '10 at 05:26

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Add this to your .emacs file:

(setq-default cursor-type 'bar)
beggs
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    Thank you very much, I have been looking for this for a few weeks(of course no all the time, anyway...), but Google never gave me this post! Probably here was not enough keywords about a flat cursor *(line cursor, vertical cursor, thin cursor, small cursor)*. – Hi-Angel Aug 14 '14 at 10:10