Making the emacs cursor into a line

Question

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?

Gauntry

This question will most likely get closed as belonging on superuser or some such. It's not really programing related. – Oliy

Answer 1

Add this to your .emacs file:

(setq-default cursor-type 'bar) 

Oliy

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). – Vituperation