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| author | Jason Rumney | 2007-02-01 15:05:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason Rumney | 2007-02-01 15:05:46 +0000 |
| commit | 7d7182dba272376bd5b169398f03cc886afab5db (patch) | |
| tree | ad93cb4180886f614ce15a8ac9270d4a64264e14 | |
| parent | b41a75694681afbcdd468f283febedf65e18f04d (diff) | |
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Expand section about Windows system caret changes.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
| @@ -3716,8 +3716,12 @@ irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry. | |||
| 3716 | --- | 3716 | --- |
| 3717 | ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor. | 3717 | ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor. |
| 3718 | 3718 | ||
| 3719 | This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track | 3719 | This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the |
| 3720 | the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. | 3720 | cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. |
| 3721 | When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible | ||
| 3722 | instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by | ||
| 3723 | some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows | ||
| 3724 | the caret visibility to be manually toggled. | ||
| 3721 | 3725 | ||
| 3722 | --- | 3726 | --- |
| 3723 | ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows. | 3727 | ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows. |