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copied!<p>The old, reliable (set-cursor-color "#aa88dd") in my .emacs file fails with Aquamacs, unless it is run after Aquamacs has launched. This type of failure is typical of Emacs doing something secretive during launch, but I can't figure out what. I modified and saved Aquamacs setting for cursor( Cursor face: background:), which works for a session, and saves the setting, but does not initialize correctly for the next session. Even after all that, I've got a bright red cursor. </p> <p>Working Emacs: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29)</p> <p>Failing Aquamacs: GNU Emacs 23.3.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54)</p> <p>1) Workarounds and fixes appreciated. At the moment I'm using 23.2.1. I don't feel compelled to upgrade, but sooner or later I'll have to.</p> <p>2) Searching the interwebs turned up nothing. I suspect the issue is a red herring related to some other issue where Aquamacs can't determine some setting and chooses Red as the cursor color. Is there a trick to get Emacs to print the name of every loaded config file into <em>Messages</em>?</p> <p>3) Related big picture question: Is there in general a way to force a new version of Emacs to behave like the old version? It would fix my current problem, as well as the upheaval that occasionally happens with new versions. </p> <p>Below is Aquamacs customizations.el which appears to have correctly saved the cursor background. I did not edit this file. Adding the (cursor...) statement to my .emacs custom-set-variable had no effect.</p> <pre><code>(custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(cua-mode nil nil (cua-base)) '(cua-normal-cursor-color "#aa88dd") '(cursor-type (quote box)) '(ess-S-assign "_") '(ido-everywhere t) '(ido-show-dot-for-dired t) '(line-move-visual nil) '(term-bind-key-alist (quote (("C-c C-x b" . switch-to-buffer) ("C-c M-x" . execute-extended-command) ("C-c C-c" . term-interrupt-subjob) ("M-`" . other-frame) ("C-m" . term-send-raw)))) '(term-unbind-key-list (quote ("C-c")))) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background "White" :foreground "black" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 210 :width normal :foundry "apple" :family "Inconsolata")))) '(cua-normal-cursor-color "#aa88dd") '(cursor ((t (:background "#AA88DD" :foreground "black" :box nil))))) </code></pre>

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