Re: change cursor type when idle

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Feb 12, 2008 7:07 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sorry, but IMHO such a feature (cua-read-only-cursor-color, or the
> similar one in Drew's package) does not seem useful for the majority of
> emacs users.  [...]
>
>   > (setq cua-normal-cursor-color    '(box . "white")
>   >       cua-overwrite-cursor-color '(hollow . "red")
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^
> IMHO this  is useful, and it should be in generic code.

I would like to hear any objective arguments about the usefulness of
an overwrite-mode cursor and the non-usefulness of a read-only-mode
cursor.

             Juanma