From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:31:36 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: <82rk0d.36.ln@acm.acm> References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110316600 19892 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 21:16:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 22:16:40 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8m05-0007TI-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:12:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mEd-0005Yf-8c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:27:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.csl-gmbh.net!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1110315773 65114 193.149.49.134 (8 Mar 2005 21:02:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Mar 2005 21:02:53 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129094 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:24642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24642 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote on Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:23:45 +0100: Hi, Thi! > * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? No. > * would you find it uncomfortable? [question amended] > (if "no", you can skip the next question.) Yes. > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? Not particularly: I've already got (menu-bar-mode 0) and (scroll-bar-mode -1) there. Why not another? > * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? > if so, which? Yes: a blinking underline. (It's all that's available, without serious kernel hacking). > * 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.) The more intrusive, the worse. A blinking block would be intolerable for me. A steady block I can tolerate. A steady bar (whether vertical or horizontal), thick enough to be clearly seen would be best. > * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to > change during an editing session? if so, how often? No. I'd leave it permanently off (if I could). > * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect > your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) The more frames (or other Window system windows) on the screen at a time, the more things that flash, blink, move or explode, the worse it gets for me. That's why I run on console mode with no mouse and one frame, covering the entire screen, visible at a time. > please trim this ...... > thi -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").