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: change cursor type when idle Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:31:27 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87k5la11es.fsf@jurta.org> References: <000d01c86c82$700dccc0$7051908d@us.oracle.com> <200802121430.m1CEUc6k013361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202845174 21362 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 19:39:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 20:39:56 2008 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 1JP0yd-0005kG-Re for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:39:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JP0yA-0000CW-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JP0xU-0008Lg-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JP0xU-0008LO-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JP0xU-0008LL-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JP0xP-00072U-Vk; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JP0xN-0000D4-3l; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:38:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200802121430.m1CEUc6k013361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:30:25 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 88f972a75cd389d721acc69b695bb680 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2232 [Feb 12 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: 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:88901 Archived-At: > - Someone that uses input methods should comment if changing the > cursor for when doing that is useful. Yes, this is very useful. This helps keeping track of the current input method when typing multilingual texts (the indication on the mode line is too hard to quickly locate when eyes are on the cursor). > - Changing the cursor in overwrite mode seems like a good idea, other > editors do it too. But other editors usually start with a bar cursor by default, and switch it to a box cursor in overwrite mode. > - IMO we should only consider adding this if we are willing to turn it > on by default. If it's not considered useful enough to be on by > default, then it seems like fluff that it's not worth documenting. I'm not against merging this with cua-mode by moving it to a separate package like cua-cursor (isn't using a box cursor in overwrite mode a CUA thing?) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/