PowerBook G3 Lombard: No cursor at the console!

[mike newman]

possibly the default colour for the cursor is the same as the background?
you could always try the following in your .emacs file ( i like red...)

	(set-cursor-color "red")

if it works, then you really do have a cursor, just that your login shell
does something strange with the colours. if not, then .... ?

i use emacs under ydl 2.3 on a wallstreet (slightly older than yours), so
there shouldn't be a compatibility problem.

mike


ps. this is probably irrelevant, but you shouldn't need to say
	% emacs .emacs
as it should find the .emacs file itself. it should suffice to do
	% emacs


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Marc Le Pape wrote:

> Everything seems fine after a trouble free install of YDL 3.0 except
> that I have no cursor when I Iog in (in text mode.)
> I am not talking about the mouse cursor; I am talking about the cursor
> showing the character insertion point whenever you type a command at
> the prompt or whenever you do text editing.
>
> If I launch Emacs, for example:
>
> % emacs .emacs
>
> there is no cursor whatsoever. Good luck working in Emacs without a
> cursor!
>
> In X Window, I have a cursor so no problem there. The issue only exists
> outside the X Window system, i.e at the console level - where I spent
> most of my time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> M
>
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