From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:32:09 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503080332.j283W9o28883@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110253005 27079 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 03:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 03:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, abraham@dina.kvl.dk, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 04:36:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8VVd-000226-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 04:35:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ViP-000818-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Vhk-0007xV-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Vhi-0007vq-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Vhi-0007ui-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8VSN-0001yL-4c; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:32:27 -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 j283WB9N021227; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:32:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j283W9o28883; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:32:09 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:51:45 -0500) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34308 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34308 Richard Stallman wrote: I do not do much web searching. Could you explain the difference? Basically, as usual in web searching, most of the hits produced by the searches of either Per or Kim are false hits, both in the case of "blinking cursor" and "fringe". I do not fancy going through all 10000 of Per's hits and carefully reading through all of them to check which ones are real and then counting them. But there is enough stuff in there of the type: ;; Blinking cursor is spawn of the Evil One (blink-cursor-mode nil) to show that many people struggle with this problem. It is not just Emacs. For instance, many people use patches to the Linux kernel to disable blinking. Sincerely, Luc.