From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blinking Cursor Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:50:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200503241500.j2OF08727332@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503241555.j2OFtgu28133@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16964.48842.86308.866534@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200503260215.j2Q2FcH14271@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16964.55737.935757.729453@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111836147 5592 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2005 11:22:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Luc Teirlinck , storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 12:22:26 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9Mb-0003cG-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:21:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9cG-0007ik-9j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:38:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9VP-0004bg-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:31:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9VO-0004bH-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9TG-0004IF-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:28:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DF8s5-0004US-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DF8s4-0002hz-2C; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:50:24 -0500 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <16964.55737.935757.729453@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:40:41 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35194 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35194 Nick Roberts writes: >> ...mouse-3 would not help them, because they would need to read the docs >> before finding out about it. > > No but it might help those who have already read the docs. Those will be better served with the command line option or the configuration variable. > > Moreover, mouse-3 is already taken for other purposes. > > Not to give in (too) easily: > > (let ((click-posn (posn-point (event-start click))) > ;; Don't let a subsequent kill command append to this one: > ;; prevent setting this-command to kill-region. > (this-command this-command)) > (if (and (not mark-active) > (eq (point) click-posn)) (blink-cursor-mode)) > > What does it interfere with now? I think this is one of the cases that does not warrant extended traffic on the list, simply because it has no chance of getting supported by more than one person. If anybody except Nick considers clicking on the cursor as an interface for stopping it from blinking a good idea, please speak up. Other than that, let us call this case closed. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum