From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:49:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87twzh4xzm.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422035419 9672 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 17:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn , Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 18:50:15 2015 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 1YEiN4-0005fr-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:50:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEiN4-00042I-0s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEiMk-00042D-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEiMf-0007Rp-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:26015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEiMf-0007Ri-Ah; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t0NHnldD028077 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:49:48 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id t0NHnkxa009773 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:49:47 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0019.oracle.com (abhmp0019.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0NHnkw5009737; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:49:46 GMT In-Reply-To: <87twzh4xzm.fsf@gnu.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:181688 Archived-At: > I just wanted to mention that indicating `overwrite-mode' with that > feature (maybe as hbar cursor) might be a worthwhile addition. FWIW, that is what the `cursor-chg.el' code does. You can choose the cursor types used. code: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/cursor-chg.el description: http://www.emacswiki.org/ChangingCursorDynamically