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 22:26:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@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 1109713338 26007 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 21:42:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 22:42:17 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6F7Z-0001bA-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6FQC-0004k0-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6FJS-00021H-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6FJB-0001tn-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6FJA-0001pB-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:53:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6EtB-0004jo-7V; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:26:45 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 662855EE071; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:26:43 +0100 (CET) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:27:57 +0100") 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:34005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34005 David Kastrup writes: > I think that the basic visibility would also be ensured if the cursor > was a hollow box cursor. It is still more conspicuous than the > "usual" blinking line cursor that is common with other editors, and I > think I could work with it as a default. I made such a change some time back, but it was reverted because some fonts (Japanese or Chinese IIRC) looked horrible with a hollow cursor. The hollow cursor is ok for cursor-in-non-selected-windows, but not as the default cursor. > > "Hide/Show" is something more appropriate for things like outline > mode, I'd say. "Appearance" would be a reasonably good name, and the > cursor type belongs in there. Agree. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk