From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Choice for not using hollow box cursor
Date: 13 Mar 2002 14:48:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5xeliozih8.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203131058.g2DAwYw05446@wijiji.santafe.edu>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Shouldn't it be the user choice? (the choice: blink between filled box
> and hollow box or blink between filled box and blank).
>
> Is this user option really necessary? We should not add a new user
> option just because its definition is meaningful and *someone* might
> want it, because that would make Emacs even more bloated. We have to
> *try* to keep the growth of user options in check, by adding only
> those that are substantially important--those that we expect
> more than a few users would want.
There is already one user option: Turn off the blinking cursor.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
_______________________________________________
Emacs-devel mailing list
Emacs-devel@gnu.org
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-13 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 19:58 Choice for not using hollow box cursor Tak Ota
2002-03-13 10:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-13 13:48 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2002-03-23 20:45 ` Tak Ota
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=5xeliozih8.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk \
--to=storm@cua.dk \
--cc=Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.