From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:16:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5uj5dgf.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1D6CyS-0004FFC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:24:04 +0000 (UTC)")
"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> For example, I just ran `camorama' and it has a solid cursor.
I don't see how a video capture program could be considered a model
for how a text editor should work. Try gedit or kate or something.
> The option should return to what it was, (blink-cursor-mode 0)
We made the decision to make blinking the default long ago, and wasted
lots of time discussing it then. We don't need to spend more time
discussing it further now.
> but if not that, then the blinking cursor should be easy to turn off
> when you do not have a .emacs file and have not yet learned how to
> write one.
I would not object to putting it into the Show/Hide submenu (renamed
if there is general agreement on that) along with fringes and other
new features that people love to hate, but the top level of the
Options menu already has too many options in it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-01 20:16 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 [this message]
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
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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