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 28.18 Pointer Shape
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 You can specify the mouse pointer style for particular text or images
 using the ‘pointer’ text property, and for images with the ‘:pointer’
 and ‘:map’ image properties.  The values you can use in these properties
 are ‘text’ (or ‘nil’), ‘arrow’, ‘hand’, ‘vdrag’, ‘hdrag’, ‘modeline’,
 and ‘hourglass’.  ‘text’ stands for the usual mouse pointer style used
 over text.
 
    Over void parts of the window (parts that do not correspond to any of
 the buffer contents), the mouse pointer usually uses the ‘arrow’ style,
 but you can specify a different style (one of those above) by setting
 ‘void-text-area-pointer’.
 
  -- User Option: void-text-area-pointer
      This variable specifies the mouse pointer style for void text
      areas.  These include the areas after the end of a line or below
      the last line in the buffer.  The default is to use the ‘arrow’
      (non-text) pointer style.
 
    When using X, you can specify what the ‘text’ pointer style really
 looks like by setting the variable ‘x-pointer-shape’.
 
  -- Variable: x-pointer-shape
      This variable specifies the pointer shape to use ordinarily in the
      Emacs frame, for the ‘text’ pointer style.
 
  -- Variable: x-sensitive-text-pointer-shape
      This variable specifies the pointer shape to use when the mouse is
      over mouse-sensitive text.
 
    These variables affect newly created frames.  They do not normally
 affect existing frames; however, if you set the mouse color of a frame,
 that also installs the current value of those two variables.  Font
 and Color Parameters.
 
    The values you can use, to specify either of these pointer shapes,
 are defined in the file ‘lisp/term/x-win.el’.  Use ‘M-x apropos <RET>
 x-pointer <RET>’ to see a list of them.
 

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