V19 Miscellaneous

Here are a few miscellaneous settings for version 19 Emacs:

• Automatically resize the minibuffer as needed:

  (resize-minibuffer-mode 1)
  (setq resize-minibuffer-mode t)
  

• Turn on highlighting for search strings:

  (setq search-highlight t)
  

• Set every frame to show a menu bar and to come forward when you move the mouse onto it.

  (setq default-frame-alist
        '((menu-bar-lines . 1)
          (auto-lower . t)
          (auto-raise . t)))
  

• Set the shape and color of the mouse cursor:

  ; Cursor shapes are defined in
  ; `/usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h'; 
  ; for example, the `target' cursor is number 128;
  ; the `top_left_arrow' cursor is number 132.
  
  (let ((mpointer (x-get-resource "*mpointer"
                                  "*emacs*mpointer")))
    ;; If you have not set your mouse pointer
    ;;     then sent it, otherwise leave as is:
    (if (eq mpointer nil)
        (setq mpointer "132")) ; top_left_arrow
    (setq x-pointer-shape (string-to-int mpointer))
    (set-mouse-color "white"))
  

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