From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:18:37 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet 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 1110331252 833 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 01:20:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 01:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 02:20:51 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8psJ-00035M-3x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:20:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8q6s-0002bf-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:35:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!7d2d8a70!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 33750e9dd81f2dd700a40c06763023dc Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net Original-X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1110331117 33750e9dd81f2dd700a40c06763023dc (Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:18:37 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:18:37 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129113 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:24663 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24663 >* have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor? Its hard to avoid trying it since it is on by default. >* do you find it uncomfortable? I find almost every visual "aid" added to emacs uncomfortable. I spend most of the first few days after I switch to a new release tracking down and squashing "helpful" new features. (I have nice two color windows everywhere for instance - one foreground, one background, no font-lock explosions of visual spagetti all over my source buffers :-). >* do you think it is an imposition to put: > (blink-cursor-mode 0) > in ~/.emacs to turn it off? Nope.Tracking down new features and killing them off is a fun game :-). >* is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to > change during an editing session? if so, how often? Oh yea, I got one (count 'em: 1) frame too. Squashing modes that want to pop up new frames was fun as well. -- >>==>> The *Best* political site >>==+ email: Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net icbm: Delray Beach, FL | Free Software and Politics <<==+