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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.
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      I clearly said in previous postings
    that the blinking cursor produced discomfort to me because of
    neuro-physiological differences with what presumably is the majority
    of people.

I believe you.

What we should do depends on how common this condition is.  What
fraction of users react this way?  Is it 10%?  1%?  .01%?

Maybe someone can find something in the user interface literature
which reports on this.