From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:34:59 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <878y55fr5o.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109814418 28566 80.91.229.2 (3 Mar 2005 01:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 02:46:57 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fQO-00024z-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 02:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fjG-0007bp-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:06:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fi5-0006mC-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fi0-0006ju-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fi0-0006iz-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:05:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.114] (helo=HOT-Bounce1.hot.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6fPy-00029Z-0j; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from MXR-1.estpak.ee (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by HOT-Bounce1.hot.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FDF93052; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 03:40:10 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-39-115-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.39.115]) by MXR-1.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275161717EE; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 03:45:41 +0200 (EET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:22:53 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:34112 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34112 Richard Stallman writes: > Does anyone else agree that this option should be in the Options menu? Yes. If not directly on the top level, then at least in one of the submenus. Since Emacs has the blinking cursor enabled by default, then there should be an easy way to disable it. Also a year ago I proposed in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-02/msg00223.html to add a new command line option: --no-blinking-cursor, -nbc disable blinking cursor In case there will be a consensus to disable the blinking cursor by default (AFAIK, XEmacs already does this), then the option should be the opposite: --blinking-cursor, -bc enable blinking cursor > What do other applications do about this? Most applications have no easy way to disable blinking cursors. So everyone who want to do it, has to spend too much time searching an appropriate option. To help people to find such an option quickly there is a page with instructions how to turn blinking cursors off in most popular applications: http://www.jurta.org/prog/noblink.en.html > My version of mozilla has no way to change whether the cursor > blinks, but it is rather old. There is no such option in Mozilla Preferences UI. However, in Mozilla there is the variable ui.caretBlinkTime which can be set to 0 through about:config or directly in user.js. In very old versions, putting *blinkRate: 0 in .Xresources should help. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/