Emacs has a lot of cool little touches to the way it blinks the cursor. blink-cursor-delay (defaults to 0.5 seconds): Keeps the cursor visible and not blinkin

Emacs has a lot of cool little touches to the way it blinks the cursor. blink-cursor-delay (defaults to 0.5 seconds): Keeps the cursor visible and not blinking when you're rapidly navigating around or typing. Most other apps seem to do this sort of thing too, but it's an easy detail to overlook. blink-cursor-blinks (defaults to 10): Blinks the cursor a certain number of times and then stops blinking. One way I do customize it is to set blink-cursor-alist to '((t . hollow)). When the cursor blinks it alternates between a full block and the outline of a block so that it never disappears completely.