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 18:56:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503020029.j220TwW21343@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 1109786722 27047 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 18:05:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 19:05:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Y9S-0002ab-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:00:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YSG-0005qG-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YQp-0005HZ-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YQj-0005De-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YQi-0005C2-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Y59-0000kC-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Y59-0007Yh-5o; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:56:23 -0500 Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:44:20 +0000 (UTC)") 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:34093 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34093 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > As I suggested earlier, Emacs should return to the format used by > other user environments, and offer a non-blinking cursor by default. All editing applications I know use a blinking vertical bar for text entry. So your proposal is not a question of "returning to the format used by other user environments". -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum