From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:46:01 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503011646.j21Gk1u16141@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2723.220.255.172.231.1109686260.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109696012 26840 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 16:53:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 17:53:31 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6AbK-0006NJ-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:52:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Atu-0008Ag-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:11:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6AqN-0004jk-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:07:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6AqK-0004fu-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:07:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6AqI-0004ct-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6AXo-0006BD-Lz; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j21GmN9N002292; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:48:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j21Gk1u16141; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:46:01 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: dak@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:27:53 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33989 David Kastrup wrote: I think that the blinking pretty much is required for locating things. I have never had any problem locating a non-blinking default box cursor instantaneously. I guess that it could be exactly the same neuro-physiological difference that makes this easy for me and hard for you (maybe for most people) that makes a blinking cursor so very uncomfortable to me and completely harmless to you. Sincerely, Luc.