From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:35:21 +0000 Message-ID: <4225C119.4080705@gnu.org> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109770800 2654 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 13:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 14:39:59 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6U45-0002Mk-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:39:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UMr-0004WT-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UEa-0000aJ-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UEL-0000Sw-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:49:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UEK-0000NI-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6U0C-0000u2-3L; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:35:00 -0500 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id FD5GSJ5B; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:34:45 -0000 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.196 ([192.168.111.196] helo=[192.168.111.196]) by ASSP-nospam ; 2 Mar 05 13:34:44 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:34073 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34073 Richard Stallman wrote: >Does anyone else agree that this option should be in the Options menu? > >What do other applications do about this? My version of mozilla has >no way to change whether the cursor blinks, but it is rather old. > > Very few applications let you change the type of cursor they use. Those that do, will bury the option somewhere within their equivalent of `customize', because they expect that the user will set it to their preference once, then never need to touch it again. If mozilla has this as an option, I expect you have to delve into the configuration files for it. It is probably worth making the cursor type a custom option at least, it appears not to be now (I'm looking at default-cursor-type, maybe that's the wrong setting). As others have pointed out, it is more common to have a blinking bar cursor when text is set to insert, and to use block cursor to indicate overwrite mode for those applications that use a blinking cursor. cua-mode already has code for changing the cursor based on whether we are inserting or overwriting (or it did last time I looked), it might be worth extracting the relevant code from there and turning it on by default.