From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: blink-cursor frame parameter Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 00:09:43 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hbzjphbc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <004001c9d732$07d81c70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242594796 11752 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2009 21:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 23:13:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M5nfL-0000Dk-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 23:13:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5nfK-0001bq-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5nfF-0001ak-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5nfA-0001Tt-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33016 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5nfA-0001Tk-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:3408) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5nf9-0006ok-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M5nf7-0009Mj-9W; Mon, 18 May 2009 00:12:49 +0300 In-Reply-To: <004001c9d732$07d81c70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 17 May 2009 13:57:02 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 485d3c07c5d69b41d1cad5b5ab8b481e X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110953 Archived-At: > There doesn't seem to be a frame parameter that corresponds to whether and how > the cursor blinks. > > Other modes, such as menu-bar-mode, tool-bar-mode, scroll-bar-mode, and > fringe-mode all act via a frame parameter. Why not blink-cursor-mode also? Do we really need this for the sake of completeness? IMO, you either like the blinking cursor or not. Not that the user can like it in one frame and hate in another frame (provided that the user has no multiple personality :) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/