From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:19:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX366evZ+9wwRp8pim09kHrhM6LjEL=ope2O9d2xDY_6AuHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831urmv30g.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Let me turn the table and ask you why do you think we need to deliver
> the focus-lost event to Lisp, if all we want is stop the cursor from
> blinking? Cursor blinking is implemented on the low level in C; why
> can't we disable it at that same level, without bothering the command
> loop and the input queue with events they don't need to see?
I agree that fixing blink cursor on a low level might be better.
However the events focus-lost/focus-got can still be useful. For
example I have long ago suggested to use focus-got for checking if a
displayed file have changed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-30 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 23:54 Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 3:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-12-30 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-30 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 9:19 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-12-30 9:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 11:58 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 12:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 12:49 ` 山本 光晴
2011-12-30 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 3:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-31 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 7:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-31 7:42 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-31 10:59 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-31 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 14:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-12-30 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 13:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-12-30 14:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-12-31 18:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-31 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
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2011-12-31 12:00 grischka
2011-12-31 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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