How do I get aquamacs to show a solid and blinking cursor?

Question

How do I get aquamacs to show a solid and blinking cursor? http://aquamacs.org/

With a lot of work we managed to get it to show a hollow and blinking box, instead of just a blinking vertical line, but that is often just too hard to see.

Answer 1

This works with NT Emacs:

(blink-cursor-mode)

Should work with Aquamacs, too.

If the cursor is not a solid box (here, by default, it is), add

(setq-default cursor-type 'box)

Answer 2

You might want to backup the unidentified file in which the setq-default is to be added, in my case the ~/.emacs* file I edited was replaced in total by something that did not include my setq addition and eliminated some other non global section (I had two non global sections before my cursor change, now I have one).

¿Perhaps the Aquamacs emacs config to be edited is contained elsewhere?

Answer 3

In Aquamacs, a convenient way to set up a filled box cursor globally is to use the command:

M-x customize

Then in the search box in the customizations buffer, type in "cursor type" and press the search button. The cursor requested is called "box".