From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: INFORMAL SUMMARY OF INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:58:21 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110738271 24274 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2005 18:24:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 19:24:31 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAXlE-0001cm-4W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:24:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAY0k-0004kv-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1110737429 66614 193.149.49.134 (13 Mar 2005 18:10:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2005 18:10:29 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129243 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:24795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24795 Hi, Thi! Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote on Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:23:45 +0100: > i'm following a thread wherein the participants discuss the > blinking box cursor, visible w/ emacs under a windowing system. > what follows is a personally-motivated survey (i'm curious), > and DOES NOT represent views of emacs hackers, etc. some of > them may read your responses and act upon the answers, but > that is NOT GUARANTEED. [insert more disclaimers here.] It would seem: 1: Every non-silly combination of shape and blinkability of the cursor is needed and loved by some people, and equally hated by other people. 2: Once a user has found his favourite cursor setup, he never wants to change it. 3: gnu.emacs.help participants don't, on the whole, mind writing simple lisp into their .emacses. > thi -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").