From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:00:33 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@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 1110149957 20834 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2005 22:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Per Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 23:59:17 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D84iG-0004ZN-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:59:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D851v-0005Ti-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D850c-0004uK-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D850T-0004oW-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D850S-0004nO-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:17:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.201] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D84ji-000502-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so774943wri for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:00:34 -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=Vj2h++Dw6kPH2m66wCdDaXKAOtANmwqxBwqgWuLVd3qvEj7zoqHv24+gBcxqfzZ2OItIddMp22srOQyNrnQ5fU+h3isOC//yuveyJFpMFoMPFiq9VsfGR0MYKh4/aN/HDn342YQMBGeMuyWS6ddukiwEkC1bYo41pcsBuK5kwUQ= Original-Received: by 10.54.17.70 with SMTP id 70mr78234wrq; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:00:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 15:00:33 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "Kim F. Storm" 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34254 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34254 On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:11:50 +0100, Kim F. Storm wrote: > > A google search on "emacs turn off blinking cursor (without the quotes) > > gives around 10000 hits. That is 10 times more than a similar search > > with "blinking cursor" replaced by "fringe", but only a fifth than the > > search for "tool bar" or "menu bar". > > > > That is persuasive evidence; I am convinced. Since this does not > > fit in the Show/Hide menu, let's add it at top level. > > That is FALSE evidence!!! I think another factor is that many people don't know that the proper term for the fringe -- I've seen a lot of posts asking something like "how do get rid of that funny blank area". If there are other Emacs users who share Luc's extremely strong reaction to the blinking cursor, but who might not be so familiar with emacs, maybe it's worthwhile even if the number of "blinking haters" in general is not as large as claimed. But I have no idea how to make that judgement. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.