From 7d7182dba272376bd5b169398f03cc886afab5db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Rumney Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:05:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Expand section about Windows system caret changes. --- etc/NEWS | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index e8b5c8a5f08..50f8c2bb868 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -3716,8 +3716,12 @@ irrespective of geometry or background setting on the Windows registry. --- ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor. -This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track -the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. +This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track the +cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs. +When such a program is in use, the system caret is made visible +instead of Emacs drawing its own cursor. This seems to be required by +some programs. The new variable w32-use-visible-system-caret allows +the caret visibility to be manually toggled. --- ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows. -- 2.39.2