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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Cc: ndame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>,
	Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
	51475@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51475: read-char-choice should hide the cursor
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 13:36:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilxesq1e.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k0hvioek.fsf@yahoo.es> ("Daniel Martín"'s message of "Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:09:23 +0200")

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> Isearch for example doesn't show the cursor after the colon until after
> the cursor can do something useful (ie. you press M-e to edit the search
> string).  By the same reasoning, I think that read-char-choice should
> always hide the cursor.

read-char-choice is a generalisation (sort of) of `y-or-n-p', which does
show the cursor.  (And I checked with 25.1 -- it shows the cursor there,
too.)

So if we're going to make things consistent, then we'd have to start
showing a fake cursor in the echo area for commands like `C-s' and
`C-x', too.

But...  I don't feel very enthusiastic about the idea.

> I'd prefer if we decide if the cursor is always visible or invisible.
> Adding variables or parameters for this would add complexity to Emacs
> for a, IMO, small matter.  If there's no agreement, I think leaving
> things as is is preferably, but that's just my opinion.

Yeah, probably.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-30 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-29  5:24 bug#51475: read-char-choice should hide the cursor ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-29 13:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 14:53   ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-29 17:13     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-29 17:16       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 18:41   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-29 18:47     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 18:54       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-29 19:00         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 19:18           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-30 11:38             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-29 20:09       ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-29 20:28         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-29 21:04         ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-30  1:24         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-30  8:48           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-30 11:36         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-11-01  8:18           ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-01  9:11             ` Gregory Heytings
2021-11-01 16:12               ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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