From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:47:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qfj3ypm.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:23:45 +0100")
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor?
Yes
> * do you find it uncomfortable?
No
> * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)?
> if so, which?
I've tried the vertical bar cursor several times, and always stopped
using it shortly -- it's simply too easy to lose track of in a screen
full of text.
> * 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.)
shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: great
shape: box, blinking: off, i-find-it: great
shape: bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no discomfort, but too hard to see
shape: bar, blinking: off, i-find-it: no discomfort, but too hard to see
> * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to
> change during an editing session? if so, how often?
No
> * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect
> your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.)
I don't like fast blinking; the Emacs default blink rate is pretty
reasonable though. [I wonder if there's some accepted standard blink
rate -- the blink rate of the Emacs and gnome-terminal cursors seems to
be almost identical.]
I think one feature of the Emacs blinking cursor that makes it much
easier on the eyes is that it stops blinking automatically while you're
typing (and your eyes are focused on it).
-Miles
--
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 22:47 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
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 [this message]
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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