From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:01:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87twzh4xzm.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422007321 31656 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 10:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 11:01:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEb3r-000661-B4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:01:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEb3q-0001uL-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36805) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEb3R-0001c4-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEb3N-0001fc-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:59991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEb3M-0001fI-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59014200CF for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= smtpout; bh=qXHWYMaTe1hKu3uFBdd/+8VtWZY=; b=gjepxEaHkmni4FUv6yNm nm9NFmwlQqDIFOEy3KPfeRzdRTp3hJm7V9K1wo3aTNFqpkeYW+bHyN3Md9U/yJSG 6X5XW3BJ5FUPFvZvch4Qnj6tx87gfHCB3Cskatrjg9HvA9KyxufGvhibZjENgc50 VNyA74iE2HGQ2ilfxdgH0XI= X-Sasl-enc: To910G8wFGsX/de+6Vb3rLvAnXYbFe/Beu3Pj3Hhlrvw 1422007283 Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p (unknown [2.160.76.157]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1148E6800FA; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:01:22 -0500 (EST) Mail-Followup-To: Kelly Dean , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:08:33 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.27 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181656 Archived-At: Hi, I like that mode and actually have a pretty similar hack in my ~/.emacs. I just wanted to mention that indicating `overwrite-mode' with that feature (maybe as hbar cursor) might be a worthwhile addition. Bye, Tassilo