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: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:44:15 +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 1109706370 30788 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 19:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:46:10 +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 20:46:10 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DJf-0007qW-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:46:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DcG-0006He-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DZg-0003sz-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DZc-0003ox-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:02:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6DZZ-0003kA-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6DI0-0005Pq-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:44:16 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6DHz-0004tf-L8; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:44:16 -0500 Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: (Jason Rumney's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:47:52 +0000") 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:34001 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34001 Jason Rumney writes: > 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, There is no other application I know that has a blinking block cursor. xterm has a static block cursor, and practically all other editing applications have a blinking vertical line. > 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. I think it belongs in the same category as scrollbars and such and should sit in one menu with them. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum