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Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:24:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> (I can
> not stand the blinking cursor for more than a couple of seconds.)  

If you type fast enough, it doesn't blink :-)

>                                                                    I
> believe that the first place a desperate novice is likely to try is
> the Options menu.  

That's a good place to look.

>                    Hence, I believe that it needs to be on the Options
> menu and be very visible there, i.e. on top.  The patch below does that.

IMO, that is the wrong place.

It belongs on the Options=>Show/hide submenu.

The cursor doesn't blink while a menu is active, so the user can
browse for the option without being annoyed :-)








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