From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109705662 28338 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 19:34:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 20:34:22 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6D7a-0005nC-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:33:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DQC-0006Ce-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DMY-0004tp-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DMQ-0004o8-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DMO-0004lK-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Cyd-0003p5-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Jason Rumney on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:47:52 +0000) 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:33999 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33999 Jason Rumney wrote, If we added everyone's pet option to the Options menu, ... It is not so simple. It is misleading to think of this as an `any person pet option'. It is not like whether someone prefers to use `dodgerblue3' or `dodgerblue4' as the background for his or her `w3-style-face-00001'. For bug reports, I specifically start Emacs without any options, except that I cannot stand blinking cursors so I use "-Q" or "-q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'". Moreover, I find it very easy to locate a standard box cursor that does not blink, whether in Emacs or in other programs. Evidentally, there are some people who cannot find such things, just as there are people who avoid Web pages with text. That is why the option exists. New users will be used to blinking cursors from the other apps they use ... We did not have blinking cursors when I was a new user and I do not see them when I try out new programs. For example, I just ran `camorama' and it has a solid cursor. Indeed, I have never seen a blinking cursor on this X Windows display other than in Emacs. (Which is good. Obviously, Luc and I are not the only people who dislike blinking cursors.) The option should return to what it was, (blink-cursor-mode 0) but if not that, then the blinking cursor should be easy to turn off when you do not have a .emacs file and have not yet learned how to write one. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc