From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Wright Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:12:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110368222 20253 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 11:37:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 12:37:02 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zUD-0004TW-K1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:36:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zis-0000Jb-Ae for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ycN-00069b-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ycK-00066L-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:40:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8yc1-0005fV-Ii for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D8yAn-0000za-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:12:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D8yAG-0006iE-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:11:40 +0100 Original-Received: from pd9ed42b5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.237.66.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:11:40 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel.d.wright by pd9ed42b5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:11:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9ed42b5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24682 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24682 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? Could someone please explain why it would be an imposition to put such a line in your .emacs file? Is there another way to do it? I have other such things like (menu-bar-mode 0) (tool-bar-mode 0) knocking about in my .emacs, and thought they belonged there. I'm just young and curious, and know no other way to adjust such things! Thanks, Daniel. > * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? Yes, I've always used it - I first learned through this thread that I could turn it off! > * do you find it uncomfortable? > (if "no", you can skip the next question.) No, or I would've tried to do something about it! > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? No, but I'm waiting to see if someone can explain why - see the above question. > > * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? > if so, which? No > * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort? > (i'm looking for correlation info, such as: > shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable > shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries > in the response.) box,blinking,happy > * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to > change during an editing session? if so, how often? No > * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect > your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) I rarely work with more that one frame, but use multiple windows.