From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: blink-cursor-mode under ttys
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:44:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874q4z363a.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512232022.jBNKMEXu008424@amrm2.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:22:14 -0800")
> > In my xterm, blink-cursor-mode doesn't work.
> > Looking at the code I don't see any not and indeed it can be made to work
> > by changing
>
> Please don't do this, at least not without a lot of user
> requests. Have we had any such requests?
>
> Terminals can usually blink the cursor by themselves, if the user has
> turned on blinking it won't be a good idea for emacs to blink the
> cursor.
>
> There was another discussion earlier this year where people stated
> that they have problems with the blinking cursor on X, let's not
> extend that problem to ttys too.
I agree that since xterms don't blink the cursor by default, Emacs
started in xterm should not blink the cursor too.
But this is rather a question of the default value. Nothing prevents
from fixing it to allow blinking cursors on xterm for users who want
to turn on blinking in Emacs.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-23 17:07 blink-cursor-mode under ttys Stefan Monnier
2005-12-23 20:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-12-23 20:44 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-12-24 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-25 19:07 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-26 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-26 21:56 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-24 2:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
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