From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1366426478.1624.YahooMailClassic@web141106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385213689 5447 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2013 13:34:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 14:34:53 2013 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 1VkDMJ-0005q6-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:34:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkDMI-0003RD-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkDM9-0003Op-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkDM2-0004gH-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:20692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkDM2-0004g9-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:34 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+K4R/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kiCTBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+K4R/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kiCTBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="40222667" Original-Received: from 206-248-174-17.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.174.17]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 23 Nov 2013 08:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3BAB060691; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:33 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1366426478.1624.YahooMailClassic@web141106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (Kelly Dean's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:54:38 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:165613 Archived-At: > (add-hook 'deactivate-mark-hook (lambda () (setq cursor-type t))) > (add-hook 'activate-mark-hook (lambda () (setq cursor-type 'bar))) I like the idea, but this collides with other uses of cursor-type. Could someone cook up a patch which only does the above if cursor-type has not been modified (and which lets users opt-out if they prefer). Also, the patch should directly modify deactivate-mark and activate-mark rather than using the hooks. Stefan