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bug#21734: 25.0.50; cursor-in-non-selected-windows set to nil in gnus-ar


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#21734: 25.0.50; cursor-in-non-selected-windows set to nil in gnus-article-mode for no apparent reason
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 19:17:51 +0200

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>,  ohwoeowho@gmail.com,  
> 21734@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:36:45 +0100
> 
> 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.

If that's the reason, IMO it definitely should be up to the user to
decide whether the inactive cursor annoys her or not.





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