From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:44:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110150069 21155 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2005 23:01:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 00:01:09 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D84k5-0004np-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D853j-0006VC-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D850k-0004z0-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:18:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D850e-0004uw-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D850Z-0004nO-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D84U4-0004TW-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E311574396 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:44:23 +0100 (CET) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Yow: I'm not available for comment.. In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:11:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:34255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34255 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> A google search on "emacs turn off blinking cursor (without the qu= otes) >> gives around 10000 hits. That is 10 times more than a similar sea= rch >> 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!!! > > The search: > > emacs turn off "blinking cursor" -info -xemacs > > gives just 163 hits on google. > > In comparison > > emacs turn off fringe -info -xemacs > > gives 543 hits. Never believe in a statistic you have not faked yourself. SCNR. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."