Brown cursor works better

[dabrahams]

I suggest changing the cursor background color from zenburn-fg to 'brown. That way you can actually see the character under the cursor.

[dbrock]

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I can't see the character under my cursor either, but changing the cursor face dosen't seem to work at all for me anymore, so changing the background color to brown doesn't do anything. I don't understand it. I'm on GNU Emacs 23.3, Mac OS 10.6. If you're on OS X too, could you provide a patch so I can try the exact thing you're doing?

[dabrahams]

on Tue Jul 05 2011, dbrock <reply+i-1169292-87f7c7c20845caee6078df50699c6b210504f4f5-AT-reply.github.com> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I can't see the character under my
cursor either, but changing the cursor face dosen't seem to work at
all for me anymore, so changing the background color to brown
doesn't do anything. I don't understand it. I'm on GNU Emacs 23.3, Mac
OS 10.6. If you're on OS X too, could you provide a patch so I can try
the exact thing you're doing?

Heh, I noticed that too. Here's what I did:

dabrahams/dwamacs@700d433

Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

[dabrahams]

One place I noticed that the default inverted cursor doesn't work out well: when resolving merges I often have to enter the "C" buffer and do edits directly there, and the white cursor is almost invisible against the pink background of the change region where there's a conflict.