From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:04:28 +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 1109768485 26763 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 13:01:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 14:01:24 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6TTP-0003sq-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:01:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Tm8-0000Mp-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:20:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6TlX-0000L0-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6TlV-0000Jw-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6TlV-0000Jm-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6TWm-0006V4-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:04:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6TWf-0001zc-TM; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:04:30 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:22:53 -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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34071 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34071 Richard Stallman writes: > Does anyone else agree that this option should be in the Options menu? > > What do other applications do about this? My version of mozilla has > no way to change whether the cursor blinks, but it is rather old. I think the contentious issue is that we are having both a block cursor as well as blinking. Either choice alone would not worry anybody. The standard "text insertion" cursor for other apps is '(bar . 1), but that is quite too inconspicuous when you are looking for it on a full screen of text (as opposed to a small text entry field). 'bar is pretty much usable in contrast (apparently width 2, at least on my display). That kind of cursor has the advantage that it can be _between_ letters, and it is in pretty common use. I have mixed feelings about that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum