From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:38:39 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503020029.j220TwW21343@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109813924 27232 80.91.229.2 (3 Mar 2005 01:38:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:38:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 02:38:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fIS-0001CX-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 02:38:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fbK-0005ms-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fas-0005jQ-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fam-0005hc-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6fam-0005g5-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:57:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.202] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6fIW-0001do-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so303808wri for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:38:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=GMvQv7RT1P7YRJJPNzBJ5OxunOoXEa3ML/BJ0W7aiV/UQHvRi1I4MnEIx53r759haf8ApyCU81/IhZybMdlxNcuGpb7OBaF2eXeem6d9mvQtmlUMFDwHfd+wRdIshFLki8hb3XX0TdB2uA3EnbodUXP5zvPbzt+XEXgXTsMwlCM= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.50 with SMTP id 50mr22999wrt; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:38:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:38:39 -0800 (PST) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: 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:34110 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34110 On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:44:20 +0000 (UTC), Robert J. Chassell wrote: > As I suggested earlier, Emacs should return to the format used by > other user environments, and offer a non-blinking cursor by default. I believe gnome-terminal blinks its block cursor by default (but I don't know any easy way of checking what the default settings in gnome are, so I can't state this with 100% certainty -- anyway, google turns up FAQ entries for gnome-terminal describing how to turn off the blinking cursor etc). Other gtk apps, mozilla etc. certainly do, using a bar cursor. Anyway, we've already had this flame war. If some people are really physically repulsed by it to the degree Luc professes (I admit, I suspect hyperbole), an option in the option menu seems reasonable, and certainly not worth _another_ long flame war. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.