From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Hobelmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:30:48 -0600 Message-ID: <395r8pF5tvtcdU1@individual.net> References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110292701 29710 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 14:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 15:38:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8fqd-00022O-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:38:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8g57-0002Tm-4g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:53:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net yC6GBZYhFqKzVs7hCLWOGQ8pKxgmeTOgrm8YG6tt87ilFNQVSX User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129082 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:24629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24629 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.