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: Menu again. Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:28:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200503241500.j2OF08727332@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503241555.j2OFtgu28133@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16964.48842.86308.866534@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 1111801187 2218 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2005 01:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 02:39:46 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF0Fx-0005sy-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF0VY-0007ev-Kx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF0VC-0007Xi-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF0V5-0007Tb-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF0V5-0007RC-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DF06d-0002BK-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DF06c-0002XG-AA; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:28:50 -0500 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <16964.48842.86308.866534@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:45:46 +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:35184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35184 Nick Roberts writes: > > 2) Move Options=>Blinking Cursor to Appearence submenu? > > > > [ ] Yes [ ] No > > I don't have strong views about what goes in the options menu-bar but how > about toggling the blinking cursor with a mouse-3 click on the cursor? > As in (mouse-save-then-kill): > > > (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 (eq (point) click-posn) (blink-cursor-mode)) > > Maybe its a bit too radical and possibly might seem unhelpful but I don't > think I would click mouse-3 on the cursor accidently. Uh, that's what one deletes text with. Anyway, special mouse clicks are useful for momentary actions, like selecting and deleting text or opening a popup window. I think it would be _very_ strange to let them toggle a preference option (which one usually sets up once and saves), let alone cursor blinking. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum