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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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--- a/etc/NEWS
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@@ -197,7 +197,8 @@ automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
 
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 ** On X and MS Windows, the blinking cursor's "off" state is now shown
-as a hollow box or a thin bar.
+as a hollow box or a thin bar.  However, you can control how it blinks
+off by setting the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
 
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 ** Emacs now supports compound-text Extended Segments in X selections.