From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 21734@debbugs.gnu.org, ohwoeowho@gmail.com, Reiner.Steib@gmx.de
Subject: bug#21734: 25.0.50; cursor-in-non-selected-windows set to nil in gnus-article-mode for no apparent reason
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:03:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fux4se2k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mdlcbmy.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:50:13 +1100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 21734@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Reiner.Steib@gmx.de
> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:50:13 +1100
>
> Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> >
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> If that's the reason, IMO it definitely should be up to the user to
> >>> decide whether the inactive cursor annoys her or not.
> >>
> >> But the default should be the reasonable one from a UX standpoint.
> >
> > I didn't find it reasonable. I have tried hundreds of major modes and
> > was genuinely surprised to find the single one that has this setting.
> > At first, I thought it was a bug, since I never touched
> > `cursor-in-non-selected-windows` in my config, then I traced it to the
> > mode's definition.
>
> Well, it's been that way for a decade, and you're the first person to
> find it surprising (that I can recall). So I'm closing this bug report.
FWIW, I think that'd be a mistake. It isn't hard to add a user option
(set it to whatever you want by default), so that those rare users who
want could customize this behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-07 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-22 11:59 bug#21734: 25.0.50; cursor-in-non-selected-windows set to nil in gnus-article-mode for no apparent reason Oleh Krehel
2015-11-01 7:33 ` Reiner Steib
2015-11-01 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 16:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-11-01 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 17:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-11-01 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-07 5:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-11-03 14:08 ` Oleh Krehel
2016-02-07 5:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-07 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-20 6:04 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 8:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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