From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:47:52 +0000 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 1109702918 18900 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 18:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 19:48:38 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6CMO-0006W4-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:44:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Cf0-0006eJ-9p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:03:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Ceh-0006cv-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:03:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Cec-0006aP-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Cec-0006Zz-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D6CPj-0000h9-MC; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j21Im4nF010327; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:48:04 GMT Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BC2DDD32; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:48:03 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:26:59 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:33995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33995 Luc Teirlinck writes: > This is unbelievable. We are talking about adding an option to a > menu, not about changing a default. If we added everyone's pet option to the Options menu, we'd end up with hundreds of options that would just be confusing to users. I don't see any need to do anything here. New users will be used to blinking cursors from the other apps they use, only a few experienced Emacs users who use nothing else will be offended by the blinking, and they can easily figure out how to disable it.