bug#21734: 25.0.50; cursor-in-non-selected-windows set to nil in gnus-article-mode for no apparent reason

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> FWIW, I consider it a bad idea for a package to usurp a user option
> like that, unless it has a VERY good reason to do that.  (The thread
> you point to is unreadable for some reason -- I see the headers, but
> not the body of the messages -- so I couldn't assess how good the
> reason was.)

If I remember correctly, I think the reasoning was that in Gnus, you
normally have the cursor in the summary buffer, but you're reading from
the article buffer.  Displaying the (unused) cursor in the buffer you're
reading from is something that many think is annoying.

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