From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving the gtk2 port Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:51:58 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040119225158.GA29528@fencepost> References: <400C5199.1040100@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074553284 17963 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 23:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 00:00:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiiO2-0005en-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:00:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiiO2-0002Tj-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:00:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiiMj-0000mX-TK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiiLv-0000Ta-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:58:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiiLO-0000Gy-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiiHG-00073v-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AiiFS-0007xd-Ba; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:51:58 -0500 Original-To: Pierre Chanial Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <400C5199.1040100@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19299 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19299 On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:52:25PM -0500, Pierre Chanial wrote: > - the text cursor should be like a |, not an filled rectangle. Its > default color should be black and not pink. No, the default cursor should _not_ be a |, that's not visible enough for serious text editing. Remember, emacs depends a lot more on the cursor position than typical mousey editors. [Speaking of Mozilla, actually, I often find its edit boxes a miserable experience because of exactly that issue: the thin little bar-cursor is hard to find after a keyboard operation that didn't have exactly the result I expected.] -Miles -- Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-class advertisement)