G.11 Miscellaneous Windows-specific features

This section describes Windows-specific features that don’t fit anywhere else.

The variable w32-use-visible-system-caret is a flag that determines whether to make the system caret visible. The default when no screen reader software is in use is nil, which means Emacs draws its own cursor to indicate the position of point. A non-nil value means Emacs will indicate point location with the system caret; this facilitates use of screen reader software, and is the default when such software is detected when running Emacs. When this variable is non-nil, other variables affecting the cursor display have no effect.

The variable w32-grab-focus-on-raise, if set to a non-nil value causes a frame to grab focus when it is raised. The default is t, which fits well with the Windows default click-to-focus policy.