From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tak Ota Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: controlling hollow box cursor Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 22:09:48 -0800 (PST) Organization: Sony Electronics Inc. Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020404.220948.60851384.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> References: <20020402.082655.60851184.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <5xit79hht1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200204032249.g33MnV812085@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017987152 23397 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2002 06:12:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 06:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tMxc-00065G-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:12:32 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tNAV-00060n-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:25:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tMxA-0008Oc-00; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 01:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail6.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.73]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tMv5-0008F4-00; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 01:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.111]) by mail6.fw-bc.sony.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA04832; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 06:09:53 GMT Original-Received: by mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com id GAA04209; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 06:09:51 GMT Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200204032249.g33MnV812085@aztec.santafe.edu> X-Telephone: +1-858-942-3239 X-Fax------: +1-858-942-9142 X-SnailMail: 16450 West Bernardo Drive MZ7205, San Diego, CA 92127-1804 X-Mailer: Mew version 3.0.54 on Emacs 21.2.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2383 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2383 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:49:31 -0700 (MST): Richard Stallman wrote: > However, IIRC, Richard didn't want to make this configurable. > > I don't think it would do any special harm for this to be > configurable, I just have not seen enough reason to think it is worth > the effort. The reason depends on the display system you have. On my system the hollow box cursor really obscures the character underneath and currently users must accept it with the blinking cursor. I proposed that kludge solution, I admit it was, because you mentioned that making it configurable would do a harm (bloat) last time. -Tak Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:58:34 -0700 (MST): Richard Stallman wrote: > Is this user option really necessary? We should not add a new user > option just because its definition is meaningful and *someone* might > want it, because that would make Emacs even more bloated. We have to > *try* to keep the growth of user options in check, by adding only > those that are substantially important--those that we expect > more than a few users would want.