From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:44:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1D6U9E-0004QgC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503020029.j220TwW21343@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:29:58 -0600 (CST))
Today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Wed, 2005 Mar 2 11:50 UTC
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.13 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.2)
started with
/usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q
As suggested, I just tried out
(setq cursor-type 'hollow)
for my selected window.
In summary, I find it irritating to use any kind of blinking cursor,
even hollow. I know that some like blinking cursors just as some
like <blink> text on Web sites. But I do not.
A non-blinking cursor-type 'hollow is OK for a non-selected window and
can be left that way.
As I suggested earlier, Emacs should return to the format used by
other user environments, and offer a non-blinking cursor by default.
If not, Emacs should make the option easy for people to change. The
blinking or non-blinking cursor option and the options for shapes for
selected and non-selected windows are more important than the current
"Truncate Long Lines in this Buffer". (I am not claiming that the
long lines option is unimportant, only that it is a buffer specific
option that often does not effect `this buffer'. Consequently, it is
less important than general options that have effects in all buffers.)
--
Robert J. Chassell
bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-02 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 0:34 Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 8:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-01 12:18 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-01 14:11 ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-01 14:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 16:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 13:28 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 16:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 16:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 17:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 18:47 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-01 19:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 19:24 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-01 20:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-02 13:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-02 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-01 19:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 0:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02 1:10 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-03 4:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 8:57 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-03 22:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-01 19:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 21:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-02 0:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02 13:44 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2005-03-02 17:56 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-03 1:38 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-03 4:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 2:27 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 12:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 16:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02 11:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 13:04 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 14:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-02 16:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-02 17:53 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 22:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-03 3:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 13:35 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 23:34 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 19:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-03-04 23:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-05 1:20 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-06 21:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-06 22:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-06 23:00 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-08 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-08 3:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08 8:21 ` Kim F. Storm
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