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[Greg. A. Woods]

|   I'd second this suggestion too!  It's also rather annoying to have the
|   window cursor immediately jump to the mouse pointer location, esp. since
|   it's a big non-flashing blob that simply appears to make the highlighted
|   region longer than it really is.

(setq default-frame-alist (acons 'cursor-type 'bar default-frame-alist))

will give you a bar cursor, which in addition to being very non-intrusive
on the screen, will make highlighting, including `search-highlight' and
`query-replace-highlight' _very_ useful.  if you have a color display, you
could probably fiddle with the cursor display to make it a little more
visible than the one-pixel wide vertical line it is today.

I found this such a wonderful thing that I patched xterm to drop the silly
blob-or-box-cursor, too, and made the cursor disappear when the window was
not selected.  patch is minimal.  send me a note if you want it (X11R5).

|   One final discrepancy between the behaviour of emacs and that of some
|   other X11 clients (I'm thinking primarily of xterm) is that the current
|   selection is pasted in at the cursor location, not the mouse pointer
|   location, when using button 2.  I realise that in an editor, this might
|   actually be a desirable feature, whereas in an xterm it is next to
|   impossible.  However, it's the discrepancy that bugs me....

(setq mouse-yank-at-point t) and it will insert at point, instead.

#<Erik>