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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: blink-cursor frame parameter
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:30:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4a7ctfq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004001c9d732$07d81c70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 17 May 2009 13:57:02 -0700")

> There doesn't seem to be a frame parameter that corresponds to whether
> and how the cursor blinks.

> Other modes, such as menu-bar-mode, tool-bar-mode, scroll-bar-mode,
> and fringe-mode all act via a frame parameter.
> Why not blink-cursor-mode also?

AFAIK, scroll-bar-mode and fringe-mode frame parameters are mostly
historical errors (they should be either window parameters or
buffer-local settings).
menu-bar-mode and tool-bar-mode refer to frame-level entities, so it
makes sense to configure them on a frame-by-frame basis.

Since there can be several cursors per frame, `blink-cursor-mode' should
be per-window or per-buffer.

Not sure if setting it buffer-locally works, but it's not terribly
important since AFAIK either users want it to blink everywhere
or nowhere.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-17 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-17 20:57 blink-cursor frame parameter Drew Adams
2009-05-17 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2009-05-17 21:47   ` Drew Adams
2009-05-17 21:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-05-17 21:54   ` Drew Adams
2009-05-18  3:10     ` Stefan Monnier

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