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 18:53:04 +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 1109786655 26787 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 18:04:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 19:04:14 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Y8v-0002V7-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:00:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YRj-0005hg-JT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:19:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YQp-0005Ha-LC 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 1D6YQk-0005EM-JJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6YQj-0005C2-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Y26-0000US-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Y1x-0007RZ-Vq; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:53:13 -0500 Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:23:31 +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:34092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34092 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > On the Appearence menu, there could be a Cursor submenu with > these choices: > > [x] Blinking > Block > < > Bar > < > Hollow > > Please remember the non-selected window, too! > > Consider a default mouse user interface like this for a Cursor menu in > Options that applies to all windows and all frames: > > Selected Window Non-selected Window > > [ ] Blinking [ ] Blinking > > Block < > Block > < > Hollow Block Hollow Block > < > Bar < > Bar > Width <2> Width <2> And so forth and so on. Trying to get into hyperbole, right? We don't need a blinking non-selected cursor. And also the menus need not accommodate _all_ choices. In a submenu of its own, choices are cheap to offer, anyway. I don't see much sense in having a blinking non-selected cursor. A full block would be the same as a selected xterm, and non-blinking small shapes hard to see. The hollow block has the disadvantage of not looking good with some ideographs, but I'd save worrying about that until somebody complains. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum