From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: change cursor type when idle Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:42:06 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8763wtua1d.fsf@jurta.org> References: <000d01c86c82$700dccc0$7051908d@us.oracle.com> <200802121430.m1CEUc6k013361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87k5la11es.fsf@jurta.org> <873arxyimf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202853310 20034 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 21:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 22:55:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JP367-00088d-7h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:55:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JP35c-0002t7-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JP33S-0001vu-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JP33R-0001ug-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JP33Q-0001uV-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JP33M-0007TR-Uv; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JP33K-0003D2-HT; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:52:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <873arxyimf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:23:04 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: ef6c50392af5ec65634338665e82f3c2 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2232 [Feb 12 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Info: {TO: local part of email appears in body} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 20 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88913 Archived-At: >> I'm not against merging this with cua-mode by moving it to a separate >> package like cua-cursor (isn't using a box cursor in overwrite mode >> a CUA thing?) > > If merging, it seems better to rip out the CUA code and make it an > independent feature. CUA sorely needs a good refactoring to rid it of > all the stuff which has nothing to do with CUA... [I seem to recall Kim > said it wasn't that easy, though.] While searching for the bug report about the cursor type, I've found http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-05/msg00034.html where Kim said it is tied to the cua's global-mark feature. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/