From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:23:45 +0100 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110270673 28804 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 08:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 09:31:13 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8a6m-0000Pb-SU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:30:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8aLD-0006Px-G1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:45:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!nntp.infostrada.it!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1110270226 27147 193.204.44.145 (8 Mar 2005 08:23:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Followups: comp.emacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gRKZz0Irwr94y1YjuSQW6+ETzlo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129071 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:24618 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24618 i'm following a thread wherein the participants discuss the blinking box cursor, visible w/ emacs under a windowing system. what follows is a personally-motivated survey (i'm curious), and DOES NOT represent views of emacs hackers, etc. some of them may read your responses and act upon the answers, but that is NOT GUARANTEED. [insert more disclaimers here.] * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? * do you find it uncomfortable? (if "no", you can skip the next question.) * do you think it is an imposition to put: (blink-cursor-mode 0) in ~/.emacs to turn it off? * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? if so, which? * 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.) * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to change during an editing session? if so, how often? * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) please trim this and the intro paragraph in your response. thanks! [insert more fearsomely strong disclaimers here.] followups set. thi