From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Plaksin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:46:44 -0500 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 1110320251 11656 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 22:17:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 23:17:30 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mwY-0007e0-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:12:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8nB6-0003yO-Lv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:27:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8nAx-0003xo-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8n7s-0003YX-Nd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8n7m-0003Ox-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:24:22 -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 1D8mgq-00007L-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D8md6-0004d8-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:52:41 +0100 Original-Received: from water.tss.usg.edu ([168.24.82.53]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:52:40 +0100 Original-Received: from happy by water.tss.usg.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:52:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: water.tss.usg.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WK/radBjZ4SaDgu593+A952tzwk= 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:24653 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24653 Thien-Thi Nguyen 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.