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: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:32:15 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503030432.j234WE209281@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503020029.j220TwW21343@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109824493 22620 80.91.229.2 (3 Mar 2005 04:34:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 05:34:52 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6i2v-0001MK-DY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:34:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6iIS-0000xr-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6iHe-0000r8-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6iHZ-0000ns-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:49:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6iHZ-0000na-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:49:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6i2y-0003eI-9i; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:34:48 -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 j234Yg9N016045; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:34:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j234WE209281; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:32:15 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:38:39 +0900) 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:34127 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34127 Miles Bader wrote: If some people are really physically repulsed by it to the degree Luc professes (I admit, I suspect hyperbole), Your suspicions are wrong. Anyway, we've already had this flame war. I did not subscribe to this site at that time. I did not propose to change the default back, so I was not trying to rediscuss something on which a decision had already been made. It is sad that people tend to start flaming when other people point out the fact that they are different from the majority in one respect or the other, and that they refuse to believe it and start suspecting all kinds of ulterior motives, even after several other people point out that same thing. Why is the fact that other people are different in some respects so hard to swallow (or believe)? There are at least two other people on this list who have said that their reactions to a blinking cursor are similar to mine. Sincerely, Luc.