From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: 8 Mar 2005 14:37:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1110321433.447792.65000@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110322031 7572 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 22:47:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:47:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 23:47:10 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8nNG-0002lJ-J9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:40:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8nbo-0001OV-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:55:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.74.20.73 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1110321438 13451 127.0.0.1 (8 Mar 2005 22:37:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:37:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=198.74.20.73; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129106 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24657 > * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? yes > > * do you find it uncomfortable? > (if "no", you can skip the next question.) I don't like box cursors, blinking or not. They make the character they cover harder to see. > > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? I like the cursor to blink. It usually makes it easier to find when I've lost it. > > * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? > if so, which? vertical bar - yes always. Much less of an obstruction to seeing the text I'm working on. > > * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort? > (i'm looking for correlation info, such as: > shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable > shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries > in the response.) see above answers > > * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to > change during an editing session? if so, how often? Never have wanted to so far. I wouldn't want it to blink while I was actually typing..but it doesn't. Just when I stop. > > * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect > your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) Generally speaking, I don't find multiple frames useful unless I'm on a machine with multiple monitors. I do however use multiple windows all the time. Only the active window cursor blinks. I think I would find it quite distracting to have a cursor blinking in an inactive window.