From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:53:48 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110319112 29327 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 21:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:58:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 22:58:32 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mfe-0004yL-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8muC-0000yx-Qa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:10:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-218-1-229.dclient.hispeed.ch Original-X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1110318828 8788 80.218.1.229 (8 Mar 2005 21:53:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:53:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129103 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:24652 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24652 Thien-Thi Nguyen schrieb: > * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? It took me a while to discover how to disable it, so yes, a few minutes. > * do you find it uncomfortable? Yes > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? No, it is very long already. > * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? > if so, which? No. Alex.