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.
next prev parent 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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