From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage. Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87hafq1lpc.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <83oba22ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <6B4F86F0-164D-4CBE-8CD2-9BC9326451C4@swipnet.se> <8361w93k8e.fsf@gnu.org> <871u6x4we0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <58D8CF7D-C157-4D48-93B4-2EFFAA4AAF61@swipnet.se> <8338rd2q1h.fsf@gnu.org> <534E99D7-CC13-4C8D-A80B-EC00995F741A@swipnet.se> <83txjt15hw.fsf@gnu.org> <83li550z3l.fsf@gnu.org> <87ip072t8d.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <831u6v12ae.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqomzwvi.fsf@gnu.org> <87ip064ydr.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r4euztt6.fsf@gnu.org> <8761w64uzy.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ppuezmum.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374256202 19477 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2013 17:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:50:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 19 19:50:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Eod-00037c-0p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Eoc-0002rL-Lc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0EoZ-0002rF-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0EoU-0002VE-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp207.alice.it ([82.57.200.103]:53847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0EoU-0002Uz-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (79.10.68.118) by smtp207.alice.it (8.6.060.26) id 51DA965502313A22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:49:53 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V0ErB-0003Zb-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:52:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83ppuezmum.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:43:45 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.103 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162023 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Eli Zaretskii () Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:43:45 +0300 The issue eventually boils down to this: do we want Emacs to be friendly to laptop batteries, or do we want it not to blink the cursor?=20 My 2c: I would like Emacs to be as quiescent as possible, powerful on demand, but otherwise unassuming. My (old) computer struggles w/ recent Emacs as it is. That said, i do not use Emacs w/o ~/.emacs; "reasonable" required tweaks i would understand and condone. =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) =3D> nil --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHpfOIACgkQZwMiJEyAdQJacgCgl4+yv7xHVWsBYkbpAB5BzFh3 1gwAnA099BMIF+DIk/WZxs1uW6rqWv/z =2uA1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--