From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.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, 08 Mar 2005 09:21:54 +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 1110271276 30469 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 08:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 09:41:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8aFm-0001tf-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:39:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8aUD-0000ZK-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8aPE-0007a0-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8aP4-0007SB-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8aP2-0007Qt-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8a4n-00037l-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 63988 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2005 08:21:44 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2005 08:21:44 -0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:51:45 -0500") 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34313 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34313 Richard Stallman writes: > > A google search on "emacs turn off blinking cursor (without the quotes) > > gives around 10000 hits. That is 10 times more than a similar search > > with "blinking cursor" replaced by "fringe", but only a fifth than the > > search for "tool bar" or "menu bar". > > > > That is persuasive evidence; I am convinced. Since this does not > > fit in the Show/Hide menu, let's add it at top level. > > > That is FALSE evidence!!! > > The search: > > emacs turn off "blinking cursor" -info -xemacs > > gives just 163 hits on google. > > I do not do much web searching. Could you explain the difference? The quotes around "blinking cursor" requires that those two words are adjacent in matching documents. This eliminates false hits which just have the words blinking and cursor anywhere in the text. -info means not to include hits which include the word "info" -- looking at the original matches, _many_ of them originated from copies of emacs' info files, so specifying -info eliminates those false hits. -xemacs means to ignore hits which are related to xemacs. A simple search which turns up 10000 hits cannot be taken as evidence of anything... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk