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: Menu again. Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:15:38 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503260215.j2Q2FcH14271@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503241500.j2OF08727332@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503241555.j2OFtgu28133@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16964.48842.86308.866534@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111803698 6739 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2005 02:21:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 03:21:37 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF0vd-0001FN-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 03:21:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF1BE-0002t0-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF18U-0001vH-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF18M-0001pW-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF18K-0001nM-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DF0qx-0005NR-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:16:44 -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 j2Q2GR9N000628; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:16:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j2Q2FcH14271; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:15:38 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: nickrob@snap.net.nz In-reply-to: <16964.48842.86308.866534@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:45:46 +1200) 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:35187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35187 Nick Roberts wrote: I don't have strong views about what goes in the options menu-bar but how about toggling the blinking cursor with a mouse-3 click on the cursor? The idea of adding "Blinking Cursor" to the Menu Bar was to aid beginning users to whom the menu bar would be part of their first introduction to Emacs. They would have to be able to disable the blinking before being able to, say, comfortably read the detailed documentation in the tutorial or Info. mouse-3 would not help them, because they would need to read the docs before finding out about it. Moreover, mouse-3 is already taken for other purposes. Sincerely, Luc.