From: Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:30:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <395r8pF5tvtcdU1@individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it>
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor?
yes
> * 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, back when that was default I immediately did a search in emacs for
blink and turned it off :)
> * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)?
> if so, which?
No
> * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort?
> (i'm looking for correlation info, such as:
> shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable
> shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries
> in the response.)
I like the current box cursor.
A vertical bar like on the Mac would be as fine.
> * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to
> change during an editing session? if so, how often?
No, it's a bug ;)
> * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect
> your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.)
When it can be made to blink slowly it might be ok.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 8:23 INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-08 13:56 ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-08 14:30 ` Ulrich Hobelmann [this message]
2005-03-08 15:38 ` August Karlstrom
2005-03-08 17:48 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-08 18:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-08 21:19 ` Ulrich Hobelmann
2005-03-08 18:44 ` roodwriter
2005-03-08 21:20 ` Radomir Hejl
2005-03-08 21:37 ` Andrew M. Scott
2005-03-08 21:46 ` Mark Plaksin
2005-03-08 21:53 ` Alex Schroeder
2005-03-08 22:37 ` rgb
2005-03-09 1:18 ` Thomas A. Horsley
2005-03-09 3:33 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2005-03-09 7:50 ` Klaus Zeitler
2005-03-09 10:12 ` Daniel Wright
2005-03-09 12:02 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2005-03-09 14:28 ` Joe Fineman
2005-03-09 19:19 ` Peter Lee
2005-03-10 22:47 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-13 17:58 ` INFORMAL SUMMARY OF " Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-13 18:59 ` Ulrich Hobelmann
2005-03-14 19:44 ` Jochen Küpper
2005-03-14 20:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2005-03-08 14:07 Loyd Fueston
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