(Displaying the Cursor): Mention visible-cursor.

diff --git a/man/display.texi b/man/display.texi
index 2f813c4b7c057c33e27e2288a6eb517de32342e6..2a3fc30ad828795d52176949fdc57f9884843bd5 100644 (file)
--- a/man/display.texi
+++ b/man/display.texi
@@ -1014,6 +1014,13 @@ terminal itself blinks the cursor, and Emacs has no control over it.)
 You can control how the cursor appears when it blinks off by setting
 the variable @code{blink-cursor-alist}.
 
+@vindex visible-cursor
+  Some text terminals offer two different cursors: the normal cursor
+and the very visible cursor, where the latter may be e.g. bigger or
+blinking.  By default Emacs uses the very visible cursor.  Setting the
+variable @code{visible-cursor} to @code{nil} makes it use the
+normal cursor.
+
 @cindex cursor in non-selected windows
 @vindex cursor-in-non-selected-windows
   Normally, the cursor appears in non-selected windows in the ``off''