From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:24:54 +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=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109665244 23899 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 08:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 09:20:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D62cR-0003Kn-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:20:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D62ux-0007hw-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D62ui-0007gd-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:39:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D62ug-0007eZ-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:39:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D62ug-0007eB-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:39:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D62gU-0003Kg-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 49300 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2005 08:24:48 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 08:24:48 -0000 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:34:04 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33964 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33964 Luc Teirlinck writes: > (I can > not stand the blinking cursor for more than a couple of seconds.) If you type fast enough, it doesn't blink :-) > I > believe that the first place a desperate novice is likely to try is > the Options menu. That's a good place to look. > Hence, I believe that it needs to be on the Options > menu and be very visible there, i.e. on top. The patch below does that. IMO, that is the wrong place. It belongs on the Options=>Show/hide submenu. The cursor doesn't blink while a menu is active, so the user can browse for the option without being annoyed :-)