From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CUA mode cursor color
Date: 13 May 2002 22:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abq6nj$urh$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buooffk4zjw.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
> I turned on CUA mode to check it out, and noticed that in addition to
> the behavior I expected -- C-x/C-c/C-v cut 'n' paste -- it also changed
> my cursor color.
>
> After searching a bit, I found the following in cua-mode.el:
>
> ;; CUA mode indications
> ;; --------------------
> ;; You can choose to let CUA use different cursor colors to indicate
> ;; overwrite mode and read-only buffers.
>
> [This is apparently on by default too.]
Oops. That's unintentional -- it should be off by default. I'll fix that.
>
> Is there a reason this is part of CUA mode? Even if it's a nice feature
> (and I suppose it is, I was just surprised by it), it seems orthogonal
> to the main functionality of CUA mode.
There are two reasons:
- the rectangle code uses different cursor colors to indicate padding
on/off.
- the cursor color and blink frequency changes when the global mark is
active.
Personally, I found it difficult to separate this from a general
control of the cursor color based on insert/overwrite/read-only
status.
>
> Why not move this stuff into a separate mode -- then people who don't
> want CUA mode can use it, and people who just want CUA mode won't have
> to go investigate why their cursor color keeps changing.
If someone like to work on this, feel welcome to rip out the code from
cua-base.el (or write something else).
Remember to make it possible for other packages to link their own
cursor color controls into it.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-13 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-13 1:16 CUA mode cursor color Miles Bader
2002-05-13 1:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-13 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 21:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-15 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15 21:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-13 13:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-05-13 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-13 17:55 ` Sam Steingold
2002-05-13 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-14 8:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-14 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-14 13:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-14 15:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-13 23:58 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-15 7:01 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-14 19:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 23:42 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-15 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 23:52 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-15 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15 21:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-17 19:29 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 21:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-13 22:41 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-13 11:21 ` Ehud Karni
2002-05-13 21:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-13 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 20:21 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2002-05-13 20:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-13 20:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-14 5:52 ` Miles Bader
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