From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Elliott Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: blink property Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:03:59 -0500 Organization: Cox Communications Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119265443 32424 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2005 11:04:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 13:04:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkK4C-00008v-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkKAP-0001lV-5c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:10:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!cox.net!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!okepread04.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.229.163.92 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net Original-X-Trace: okepread04 1119265439 68.229.163.92 (Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:03:59 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:03:59 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132071 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27543 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27543 Joe Corneli wrote: > Is there a (display independent) blink property that I can apply to > chunks of text? By display independent you mean you do not want to mess with the terminal's text properties? If not, maybe you could use a bit of elisp code in emacs to change the terminal's blinking text paramter on for the text you want to blink, and back off when you are finished. - dan