From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: 08 Mar 2005 05:56:39 -0800 Message-ID: References: <7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110290541 22337 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 14:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 15:02:20 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8fGO-000464-Ic for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:00:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8fUs-0000im-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:15:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1110290199 17436 171.64.107.180 (8 Mar 2005 13:56:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129079 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:24626 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24626 > * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? Yes, for a while. It is not turned on now, though. > * do you find it uncomfortable? > (if "no", you can skip the next question.) Yes. > * do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? Not personally, since I have so much crap in my .emacs anyway. But I imagine a new user can get pretty put off by it. > * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? > if so, which? I use the default (block cursor) cursor, most of the time. (I have a customization to change it to a bar cursor when the mark is active, but that's beside the point.) > * 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.) I have only tried the block cursor, and I find it horrible. I have not tried the blinking cursor with other cursor types. > * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to > change during an editing session? if so, how often? It is now set to off. Always. > * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect > your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) I usually use only 1 frame (at most 2 frames), and very few windows.