From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Loyd Fueston Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:07:46 -0500 Message-ID: <10487.7038430006$1110309514@news.gmane.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110309514 25213 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 19:18:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 20:18:33 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8kAO-0004rP-EY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8kOu-0004Y1-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8kLv-0003Ld-TD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8kLu-0003Kk-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8kG1-0002GV-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:20:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8jdu-0003wb-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:41:18 -0500 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8jdt-0004J1-Qc for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:41:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1D8jLQ-0002aW-Gg for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.138] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1D8jLQ-0002aF-4J for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D8jLN-0001RC-SZ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:22:09 -0500 Resent-From: ttn@glug.org Resent-Date: 8 Mar 2005 13:22:09 -0500 Resent-To: gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Resent-Message-Id: Resent-Sender: Thien-Thi Nguyen Resent-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:22:09 -0500 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:24637 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24637 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? yes > * do you find it uncomfortable? > (if "no", you can skip the next question.) distracting and potentially uncomfortable > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? No. That's what I do. Been using emacs for 5 years and got most of those basic issues settled in first year or so. > * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? no, just the box and hollowed-box in window not in focus > * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to > change during an editing session? if so, how often? no. I just leave it off. I find customization to be a little confusing because of all the options, except when I already know the name of a specific group. Has anyone ever thought about providing a documented template dot-emacs suitable for inexperienced users, maybe putting up a message on the initial splash-screen? Once someone sees a few customizations that actually affect his sessions, and learns a little bit about emacs docs, it isn't that hard to deal with those customizations. It's just those initial changes that are confusing. I would be willing to help produce and document such a dot-emacs after April. (Besides basic text-editing, I use auctex, gnus, and org-mode extensively -- but not always in a sophisticated manner. slime and other CL packages sometimes.)