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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 56507@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56507: Suggestions for the "Options" menu
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:42:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yk2pnfx.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k08i4ut8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue,  12 Jul 2022 10:58:35 +0300")

>>>>> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

    >> 2. Remove "Blink Cursor".
    >> 
    >> For both of these, this is the standard behavior in almost any
    >> text editor, and any user that wants to customize them can and
    >> will do it without the menu.

    > None of the text editors that I tried has a blinking cursor by
    > default.  Maybe because they use the system settings where I
    > disabled cursor blinking in Keyboard preferences.  So this menu
    > item could be removed not sooner than Emacs will respect these
    > system settings as well.

Please don't remove Blink Cursor from the Menu bar. I set the cursor to
blink via my ~/.emacs; however, I often want to stop temporarily the
cursor from blinking and this I do this via the menu.

Why remove something that has worked well over the years? Who gains?

Best wishes

Colin Baxter.







  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12  1:49 bug#56507: Suggestions for the "Options" menu Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12  2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12  6:50   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12  7:58 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-12 11:42   ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2022-07-12 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-12 14:04   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 14:10     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-12 14:38       ` Stefan Kangas

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