electric-cursor-mode
is a global minor mode that sets up hooks to change the cursor-type
in Emacs in certain modes.
The default is to change the cursor to a block in overwrite-mode
, and a vertical bar in every other mode.
The modes and cursor types are defined in the variable electric-cursor-alist
, an alist with modes in the car
position and cursor shapes in the cdr
positions.
For example, the default looks like this:
((overwrite-mode . box))
When you enable electric-cursor-mode
, it adds hooks to each mode in electric-cursor-alist
to set the cursor according to electric-cursor-alist
.
The hooks are removed when you disable electric-cursor-mode
.
You can find electric-cursor
on MELPA, so it's installable via package.el
, straight.el
, or whatever. Of course, you can also clone this repository and put it somewhere Emacs will know about it. After that, just do this:
(electric-cursor-mode +1)
The code in this repository is licensed under the ISC license. See LICENSE for details.
Open an issue or send me an email (my email address is in electric-cursor.el's header).