[OS X Emacs] A thicker cursor pointer in Aquamacs

[siemsen at ucar.edu]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Elliott Roper wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2011, at 18:38, David Reitter wrote:
>> On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Jack Repenning wrote:
>> 
>>> That sets the width of the text insertion point marker; is there an analogous way to set the mouse sprite?
>> 
>> I don't recall anything.  It's a system wide setting, and applications generally don't mess with it.  Maybe you can get a utility somewhere that changes this system-wide, or the accessibility options have some settings.
>> 
> They sure do.
> System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Mouse and Trackpad
> Near the bottom: For difficulties seeing the cursor
> Adjust the slider to taste.
> 
> I confirmed that Aquamacs respects it.
> 
> In Lion anyway. Snow Leopard is so-oo last Tuesday.

Now if only there were a way to change the color of the sprite, so that it can be easily seen when the Aquamacs buffer has light text on a dark background.

-- Pete