From: Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org>
Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:46:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3is41kdyz.fsf@water.tss.usg.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ebr9u35ri.fsf@ada2.unipv.it
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
> i'm following a thread wherein the participants discuss the
> blinking box cursor, visible w/ emacs under a windowing system.
> what follows is a personally-motivated survey (i'm curious),
> and DOES NOT represent views of emacs hackers, etc. some of
> them may read your responses and act upon the answers, but
> that is NOT GUARANTEED. [insert more disclaimers here.]
>
> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor?
Just long enough to turn off the blinking.
> * 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?
No.
> * 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.)
Shape isn't important. Blinking drives me batty.
> * 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 only use one frame. When I watch people with many open windows (Emacs or
not) I get very distracted if they have a cursor blinking in each one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 8:23 INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-08 13:56 ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-08 14:30 ` Ulrich Hobelmann
2005-03-08 15:38 ` August Karlstrom
2005-03-08 17:48 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-08 18:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-08 21:19 ` Ulrich Hobelmann
2005-03-08 18:44 ` roodwriter
2005-03-08 21:20 ` Radomir Hejl
2005-03-08 21:37 ` Andrew M. Scott
2005-03-08 21:46 ` Mark Plaksin [this message]
2005-03-08 21:53 ` Alex Schroeder
2005-03-08 22:37 ` rgb
2005-03-09 1:18 ` Thomas A. Horsley
2005-03-09 3:33 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2005-03-09 7:50 ` Klaus Zeitler
2005-03-09 10:12 ` Daniel Wright
2005-03-09 12:02 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2005-03-09 14:28 ` Joe Fineman
2005-03-09 19:19 ` Peter Lee
2005-03-10 22:47 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-13 17:58 ` INFORMAL SUMMARY OF " Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-13 18:59 ` Ulrich Hobelmann
2005-03-14 19:44 ` Jochen Küpper
2005-03-14 20:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2005-03-08 14:07 Loyd Fueston
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