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* Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation
@ 2013-04-20  2:54 Kelly Dean
  2013-04-20  7:23 ` Drew Adams
  2013-11-23 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 110+ messages in thread
From: Kelly Dean @ 2013-04-20  2:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

By default in Emacs, when the region is active but empty, there's no visual indication of this status. Neither is there indication of the active region if point is one less than mark and blink-cursor-mode is off. Also, if point is greater than mark, the active region is highlighted, but the block cursor does an inverse-video highlight of the character following the region, which (speaking from experience) an Emacs newbie finds distracting, since it seems to indicate that that character is also part of the region, even though it actually isn't. Adding to the confusion, the inverse-video highlighted character actually is part of the region in the case that point is less than mark. Setting the cursor type to bar when the region is active solves all those problems, and I recommend it as the de
 fault for Emacs.

(add-hook 'deactivate-mark-hook (lambda () (setq cursor-type t)))
(add-hook 'activate-mark-hook (lambda () (setq cursor-type 'bar)))

Simply setting the cursor type permanently to bar would solve most of the problems, but still wouldn't indicate an active empty region. And a permanent bar cursor makes it hard to find the cursor on screen if blink mode is off. So I recommend keeping the current default of a block cursor when the region isn't active.

Stephan said (in comment about bug 14225) that if a dynamic cursor is the default, then people will probably start experiencing bugs because of it. For me it's only triggered bugs 13027, 14225, and maybe 13169, which are all fixed, and when I restart Emacs I get a bar cursor in each buffer (reloaded using desktop mode) until I do keyboard-quit, but it doesn't bother me much since I don't restart Emacs very often.




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2013-04-20  2:54 Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Kelly Dean
2013-04-20  7:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22  5:38   ` [PATCH] " Kelly Dean
2015-01-22 14:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23  3:08       ` [PATCH] " Kelly Dean
2015-01-23  4:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 11:07           ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 17:49             ` Drew Adams
2015-01-24  3:06               ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24  4:52                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-24  9:22                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 14:29                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-28  9:15                       ` [PATCH] Run hook when variable is set Kelly Dean
2015-01-28  9:23                         ` [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Kelly Dean
2015-01-28 11:24                           ` David Kastrup
2015-01-28 12:13                             ` David Kastrup
2015-01-29 10:46                             ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-29 11:16                               ` David Kastrup
2015-01-30  7:20                                 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-30  9:19                                   ` David Kastrup
2015-01-30 10:05                                     ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-30 10:12                                       ` David Kastrup
2015-01-30  9:43                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-28 19:25                         ` [PATCH] Run hook when variable is set Stefan Monnier
2015-01-29  8:20                           ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-29  8:28                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-29 14:58                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-30  7:34                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-30 15:55                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-31  9:18                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-31 20:48                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-02  5:40                                       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-02 15:57                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-03 19:56                                           ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-03 22:49                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-05  3:10                                               ` [PATCH] (Updated) " Kelly Dean
2015-02-05 13:57                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-06  5:34                                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-06 14:42                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-07 12:27                                                       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-07 15:09                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-09  3:24                                                           ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-12 19:58                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-13 23:08                                                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-14  0:55                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-14 22:19                                                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-15 20:25                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17  2:22                                                                       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-17 23:07                                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-18  3:19                                                                           ` The purpose of makunbound (Was: Run hook when variable is set) Kelly Dean
2015-02-18  5:48                                                                             ` The purpose of makunbound Stefan Monnier
2015-02-18  8:51                                                                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-18 14:34                                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-18 18:53                                                                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-18 22:42                                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-19 10:36                                                                                       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-22  0:18                                                                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-19 10:45                                                                           ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-19 13:33                                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-19 23:51                                                                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-20  1:59                                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20  9:35                                                                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-20 16:55                                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20  2:58                                                                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-02-20  0:56                                                                             ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-20  9:02                                                                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-20 15:41                                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-21  5:45                                                                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-02-22  0:32                                                                                     ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-22  8:45                                                                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-18  5:15                                                                         ` [PATCH] (Updated) Run hook when variable is set Kelly Dean
2015-02-18 22:37                                                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-18 22:37                                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-19 10:35                                                                           ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-19 13:30                                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20  6:48                                                                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-20 19:29                                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-21 14:18                                                                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-21 20:51                                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-22  0:32                                                                                       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-22 10:40                                                                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-02-22 21:35                                                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-23  3:09                                                                                           ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-23  4:19                                                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20 20:27                                                                               ` Proposal for debugging/testing option Kelly Dean
2015-02-24 16:28                                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-14 20:37                                                               ` [PATCH] (Updated) Run hook when variable is set Johan Bockgård
2015-02-15 19:36                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-15 19:53                                                                   ` Patches: inline vs. attachment, compressed vs. uncompressed. [was: Run hook when variable is set] Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-06  9:55                                                   ` [PATCH] (Updated) Run hook when variable is set Kelly Dean
2015-01-30 23:29                                 ` [PATCH] " Richard Stallman
2015-01-31  9:23                                   ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-31 23:16                                     ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-02  5:41                                       ` Kelly Dean
2015-02-01  2:04                               ` Alexis
2015-02-01  4:05                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-01  8:58                                   ` David Kastrup
2015-01-29 16:06                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-30  7:14                               ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-30  9:08                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 20:34             ` [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Stefan Monnier
2015-01-24  0:25               ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 10:01         ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-23 17:49           ` Drew Adams
2015-01-23 10:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 11:40           ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 11:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22  5:41   ` Kelly Dean
2013-11-23 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-23 20:25   ` Drew Adams

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