Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage.

[covici]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Comments: In-reply-to Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> >     message dated "Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:55:33 -0400."
> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:29:18 -0400
> > From: address@hidden
> > Cc: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?=
> >     <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> > 
> > I hope you don't fix this for windows, it would probably make screen
> > readers not follow the cursor at all!
> 
> Screen readers follow the system caret, not the cursor.  Emacs on
> Windows moves the caret when it moves the cursor, but I don't think
> this has anything to do with blinking.

Except that the screen readers require a blinking cursor, so there is a
special variable I have to set in my .emacs for this to work properly.


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