From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:08:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109695581 25462 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 16:46:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 17:46:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6AVi-0005cR-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:46:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6AoI-0002yg-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:05:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Anp-0002tn-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Ano-0002sx-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:04:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Ajo-0001Ig-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D69xP-0003E7-ML; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:10:47 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j21GAl9N002200; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:10:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j21G8OL15703; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:08:24 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: dak@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:28:27 +0100) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33986 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33986 > Hence, I believe that it needs to be on the Options > menu and be very visible there, i.e. on top. The patch below does that. IMO, that is the wrong place. It belongs on the Options=>Show/hide submenu. I do not understand why that would be logical. We are not talking about _hiding_ the cursor. I personally would not think of searching in that submenu, except with a "One never knows, I have seen people put things in strange places before" type attitude. I believe that `blink-cursor-mode' is definitely important enough to be at top level. _Every_ option is supposed to be completely irrelevant to the majority of people. If not, the default is wrong. Sincerely, Luc.