From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: blink-cursor frame parameter Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 14:54:07 -0700 Message-ID: <004301c9d73a$0159b0e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <004001c9d732$07d81c70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242597275 17651 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2009 21:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 23:54:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M5oJO-0004SL-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 23:54:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5oJO-00054q-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5oJH-00053p-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5oJB-00050P-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49979 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5oJB-00050A-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:60214) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5oJ9-0007mS-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n4HLruFS009293 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 17 May 2009 21:53:57 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt002.oracle.com (abhmt002.oracle.com [141.146.116.11]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n4HLsgWJ011828; Sun, 17 May 2009 21:54:42 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/98.210.250.59) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 17 May 2009 14:54:05 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: AcnXNvStovyol8weTLGbd2tuz13LUQAAk9kg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: abhmt002.oracle.com [141.146.116.11] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010204.4A10877E.01BF:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110959 Archived-At: > > There doesn't seem to be a frame parameter that corresponds > > to whether and how the cursor blinks. > > > Other modes, such as menu-bar-mode, tool-bar-mode, scroll-bar-mode, > > and fringe-mode all act via a frame parameter. > > Why not blink-cursor-mode also? > > AFAIK, scroll-bar-mode and fringe-mode frame parameters are mostly > historical errors (they should be either window parameters or > buffer-local settings). > menu-bar-mode and tool-bar-mode refer to frame-level entities, so it > makes sense to configure them on a frame-by-frame basis. > > Since there can be several cursors per frame, > `blink-cursor-mode' should be per-window or per-buffer. Oh, right. I forget that using (usually) one buffer per frame is still uncommon. ;-) > Not sure if setting it buffer-locally works, but it's not terribly > important since AFAIK either users want it to blink everywhere > or nowhere. See my other mail about that, substituting class/set of buffers for class/set of frames. (I obviously don't care much about the blink cursor case. The important use cases I have are for things like menu-bar and tool-bar, which one typically doesn't want to suddenly appear in each of the tiny thumbnail frames just because you turned on menu-bar-mode after it was off.)