From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Zeitler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:50:01 +0100 Organization: Lucent Technologies 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 1110354927 16089 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 07:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 08:55:27 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8w2J-00077f-V8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:55:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wGw-0008EA-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:10:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!netnews.proxy.lucent.com!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sfsw51.de.lucent.com X-Windows: the art of incompetence. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LcjLlae2DL46NFPu3PCuRe1X77s= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129124 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:24674 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24674 >>>>> "Thien-Thi" == Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: Thien-Thi> Thien-Thi> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? yes, I use it all the time (I've used a code snippet to achieve this years before it was officially added) Thien-Thi> * do you find it uncomfortable? Thien-Thi> (if "no", you can skip the next question.) not at all Thien-Thi> * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? Thien-Thi> if so, which? no, the default is perfect for me. I could live with a horizontal bar, but I loathe vertical bars. Thien-Thi> * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort? Thien-Thi> (i'm looking for correlation info, such as: Thien-Thi> shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable Thien-Thi> shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries Thien-Thi> in the response.) perfect defaults for me (only one window, one frame, default rate is ok) (another nice feature is that cursor changes color in overwrite-mode) Thien-Thi> * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to Thien-Thi> change during an editing session? if so, how often? no Thien-Thi> * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect Thien-Thi> your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) I estimate my average of the number of frames in a longer session is somewhere around 5. I use frames to organize my work and the blinking cursor helps me not to lose track. -- ------------------------------------------ | Klaus Zeitler Lucent Technologies | ------------------------------------------ --- To decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove one of them (leaving, say, "a").