Re: Speeding up Emacs load time

[Dmitry Gutov]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> The black background - *much* less light enters your eyes. But it
> is not like the light from (for example) the sun, because the
> light from the monitor (projector in my case) holds information
> that must be decoded, and, at a fixed distance, while maintaining
> a high degree of concentration, it makes your eyes not blink -
> which makes for *dry* eyes. The black background really, really
> helps.

It only works if you're sitting in a darkly-lit room, using dark desktop
theme, and don't routinely switch to e.g. web browser, wherein most of
the websites are dark-on-light.

Otherwise, the switching between levels of contrast will put even more
strain on the eyes. I'm sure you'll notice that when you get a few more
years sitting before a computer under your belt. I'm 26, and I've
started paying attention to this 2-3 years ago.

> Blinking cursor - popups - nothing should happen unless you do
> something

I agree, the cursor shouldn't blink by default.