Questions tagged [cursor]
is for the cursor display and cursor moving operations in Emacs. The cursor point features prominently in Emacs for editing, selecting, and navigating around Emacs buffers.
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How can I define a new `cursor-type` value (a new cursor shape)?
I would like to be able to create a new cursor shape, that is, a new possible value for option cursor-type -- for example an
I shape. Is there a way to do that, similar to the fringe cursor bitmap?
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Change cursor blinking status upon state change of evil-mode
I'm using evil-mode.
My goal is to have a blinking cursor upon entering evil-insert-state, and to have a non-blinking cursor in evil-normal-state.
I tried the following but it doesn't work:
(add-...
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Recommended way to modify built-in (blink-cursor-timer-)function behavior
I have re-defined blink-cursor-timer-function for the cursor to change colour. How can I modify this without re-defining the build-in function?
(defvar ramona-indicator-colour
(list "#FFA500&...
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How to set crossline alike highlighting mode in emacs?
What i'm trying to do here is that, in my buffer I want to point the cursor position through highlighting the line horizontally and column vertically. Much like the CrosshairHighlighting mode.
(https:...
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Get cursor to jump briefly to open paren when I type close paren
Emacs on my computer at work behaves in the following way: When I type a close paren, the cursor briefly jumps to the matching open paren. I like this behavior, but I can't get Emacs on my Mac at home ...
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Is it possible to wrap a small package not listed on MELPA/ELPA via use-package? How to do it?
I like this Emacs package called Emacs Centered Point link. I must highlight that it is not listed on MELPA/ELPA.
Until now, I have just appended the snippet to my init file with the following and it ...
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read-file-name: position of the cursor
If I do something like that:
(read-file-name "Picture name:" "/tmp" nil nil "myedfault.png")
to ask to the user the name of a new file, where ido is enabled with (setq ...
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Disappearing Cursor
This is a problem I have when using GUI Emacs. I don't have this problem with terminal Emacs.
After starting it, I don't see any cursor.
I've put this at the bottom of my .emacs file
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cursor jumps, words jumbled (emacs in terminal via iTerm2 on macos)
I use GNU Emacs 27.2 on macos (Monterey) in an iTerm2 terminal window. iTerm2 settings are largely default (I have remapped esc to option as my metakey).
When I open a file and start editing, things ...
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Why does ^g reset my cursor color?
I'm using Emacs 27.2 on macOS 10.13.16 from the railwaycat build. I set my cursor color to a red color using
(set-cursor-color "red")
As soon as I type controlg, the cursor color reverts to ...
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Change the size of the cursor
How can I prevent the height of a vertical cursor to be changed if I increase the line spacing? This is my .emacs setup
(setq-default cursor-type 'bar)
(setq-default line-spacing 1.15)
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How to memorise the cursor position and return to it?
Say I was working in a big file somewhere in the middle and all of the sudden I realise that I need to edit the top of the file. I do a M-< to go to the top and make my edits. Now I want to move ...
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How to make two fixes to mouse click positioning work together?
There are subtle issues with mouse-click cursor positioning which I try to get fixed.
The first patch makes sure that the cursor falls on the correct side of a character when clicked left of right ...
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How to use mouse click to the right or to the left of the text to move cursor to this line?
On a mouseclick to one side of the text, it can be convenient to make the cursor jump to:
the beginning of the line (when clicking left of the text)
the end of the line (when clicking right of the ...
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Emacs cursor border hides the character
Cursor does not show the bottom section such as _ or bottom part of character g. This is the case in emacs -q -nw file.py and also the case in my init.el file. I am not sure how can I fix this issue.
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Binding option + arrow keys/backspace on Mac OS while still being able to enter special characters
I want to be able to bind ⌥← to move the cursor to the previous word, ⌥→ to the next word, ⌥↓ to scroll down a page etc. in Emacs on Mac OS, as in native text editing controls, but also still be able ...
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Position the cursor at a specific point in a custom Emacs grep command
I have created this custom grep command in Emacs to search for contacts:
'(grep-command
"grep --color -nH --null grep -ie '^name' -A 1 ~/diary/*.org")
I would like to be able to ...
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How to make a thin red cursor
This is a newbie question.
I'd like to have a red cursor with a width of 4. This code doesn't work:
(setf cursor-type '(bar . 4))
(set-cursor-color "#FF0000")
how can i correct this to ...
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Cursor's color differs from what specified in the frame parameters
This question is related to this one: resize-temp-buffer doesn't work in my code when 2 windows are diplayed into the frame
If I open emacs from scratch and I evaluate:
(frame-parameter nil '...
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How to change cursor color in emacs 27?
Note that I'm using a theme (not sure if that changes things).
I have
(set-cursor-color "White")
But my cursor is still yellow.
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Spacemacs move cursor using word wrap, not line breaks
I would like to be able to move the cursor around using the visual buffer, but I don't want to add line breaks to the source file. I'm not sure a better way to describe it, so I got some gif examples.
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Few settings doesn't work in -no-window mode
I newbee in Emacs, and trying to set up emacs. Well, I've written a init.el file and except few things always work properly. But in -nw mode cursor doesn't work (blink not working), tabs doesn't work (...
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Cannot change cursor type on Windows 10
I've used emacs on Windows 10 for a year. Recently, my "box" cursor in emacs has become a thin vertical line.
I have tried setting the variable "cursor-type", but this no longer seems to have any ...
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mac-mwheel-scroll screws centered-positon-mode when using mouse pad on a macbook laptop
I am able to scroll using navigation buttons and external mouse on a Mac with this code that keeps the cursor at a specific line at all times.
I am using this code since it is much faster than ...
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How to scroll using mouse while keeping cursor on same line/position?
I am using this minor mode to scroll and keep cursor on same line, mwheel-scroll however screws up the smooth scroll since it moves the cursor to a different line, scrolling return the cursor back to ...
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cursor color depending on insert or overwrite mode
how can I change the cursor color depending on insert or overwrite mode?
I looked at this page
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ChangingCursorDynamically
and put as recommended 3 lines in the Emacs ...
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Mark Cursor Vertically on Multiple Lines
I can enter rectangle mark mode with C-x SPC, and then do C-p or C-n to set mark to the line above or below.
How do I vertically mark multiple lines in one go without having to do C-p or C-n multiple ...
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How to navigate SPC commands with Vim cursor?
I am very used to Vim keys BUT I love to use Emacs. That's why Spacemacs in Evil mode is perfect for me. There is one thing I still cannot figure out how to do. I don't know how to use h,j,k,l for ...
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Save place in files but don't move the cursor to the saved position automatically
I'd like to have a command that moves the cursor to the last position it was in when I left the buffer (either by killing it or by killing Emacs).
I know I can use saveplace.el to save the position ...
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Emacs not active when switching from different workspace
this repulses me to my core. Every so often when I switch to my emacs from a different workspace (awesome wm) the cursor appears just as an outlined box and is not active until I switch back and forth ...
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org-mode: How to change cursor type for variable-pitch mode?
I have the following block of lisp codes in my .emacs config to enable variable-pitch mode for Org-mode. It is working fine however the cursor has changed from the default block to a thin line. Could ...
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Why is cursor moving after a save?
When working with the same buffer in multiple windows within one frame, it seems like the location of the cursor in, say, window A gets inadvertently set as a marker such that right after the buffer ...
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How do I move the cursor in helm?
How do I move the 'cursor' to the left/right in helm when typing a filepath? Currently my left arrow seems to be mapped to a backspace / clear word.
I'm using Spacemacs in evil mode.
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Weird cursor position of emacs 26.1 on macOS 10.12.6
I am new to emacs and I met a weird emacs problem, which I don't even know is a feature or what :)
Behavior:
The emacs is in the text-mode and turned off all the plugins, and I want to type ["ls"], ...
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How to keep cursor position after quitting undo-tree-visualize
After using undo-tree-visualize and going back to some previous state, I wanna return back to final state (i.e., no undo) with my cursor staying at the position at that previous state. Is it possible?...
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Update point using mouse
I have been trying to add a custom keyboard command that will find a functions definition using S-mouse1.
The issue is that I need two mouse clicks for this to work. The first click is to move ...
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forward/backward/next/previous element against YAML?
The lisp program is structured language, and one can execute C-M-f(forward-sexp) to pick the next sibling element. Similarly, C-M-b, C-M-u, C-M-d are defined; they can be used to move the cursor to ...
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How can I make the cursor change to block in overwrite mode?
I got something like that:
(global-set-key [insert] (lambda () (interactive) (overwrite-mode) (setq cursor-type 't)))
But I don't know how to do it so that when you exit the insert mode (when you ...
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Jump to non-whitespace characters along a column
I'd like to have a command that moves down to the first line of the next string of nonwhitespace characters along the current column, and the analogous commands that move upward, and to the last line ...
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How do I keep the cursor from going to the beginning of the line when there's no text on said line?
I want the cursor to stay in the same column whilst moving up and down on tabbed lines.
But instead the cursor goes to the beginning of the line if there's no text on that line.
How do I get rid of ...
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Terminal cursor movement stutters when mouse cursor is hovered over terminal
I using emacs-nox with Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
The problem I'm facing is that whenever my mouse cursor is hovering over the terminal window, I experience very stuttery cursor movement.
As you can see in ...
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How do I return to where I was before i-search, goto line, etc
Let's say I'm on line Y, char X, and then do an i-search or do a goto line. Then I move around there a bit, but then I want to return to Y, X. How do I do this? Is there an automatic mechanism that ...
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Skip vertical whitespace/non-whitespace blocks (sort of vertical M-f / M-b)
Say the point is on the 0 here:
as0sasasa
asasasasa
as1sasasa
asa
as3sasasa
asasasasa
as2sasasa
I'd like to have a command – like a vertical forward-word – that when run repeatedly would jump ...
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Dynamically change cursor color to indicate input script
I'd like to use the cursor color to provide visual feedback on the alphabet I am currently in (I sometimes have to switch rapidly between, say, Latin and Cyrillic, and find myself typing in the wrong ...
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Strange regex behavior
I want to skip blank region under cursor, so I created this regex:
\s+\w translated to emacs regex [:space:]+[:graph:] but it doesnt match what I want. It matches some random space somewhere!
Whats ...
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How can I highlight cursor or line in unselected frames?
Prelude
Let me start by mentioning the scenario where the problem arises.
I see that 2-3 variables are always used together in a system. I need to add yet another one that will be used along with ...
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Cursor disappears when point is at a leading star and org-hide-leading-stars is non-nil
In non-graphic mode I set org-hide-leading-stars to t. Unfortunately, under these circumstances, whenever point is on a leading star, the cursor disappears altogether. IOW, not only the leading star ...
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Using ggtags tag lookup along with centered-cursor-mode
I am using centered-cursor-mode to center the cursor at 10 lines above center at all times. I am trying to have ggtags respects this setup after each tag lookup.
When I have the cursor at any point ...
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Moving cursor to the middle of the line where it currently is
Is there a way to define a function that, when called, would move the cursor to the middle (or close to the middle) of the current line, similarly to how we can move it to the beginning and end of the ...
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Tab completion in minibuffer moves cursor out of minibuffer
Problem: When pressing TAB in the minibuffer to get completions, the cursor is moved to the window of whatever file I am editing.
Expected result: Pressing TAB in the minibuffer should keep the ...
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