Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor

[Mark Plaksin]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:

> i'm following a thread wherein the participants discuss the
> blinking box cursor, visible w/ emacs under a windowing system.
> what follows is a personally-motivated survey (i'm curious),
> and DOES NOT represent views of emacs hackers, etc.  some of
> them may read your responses and act upon the answers, but
> that is NOT GUARANTEED.  [insert more disclaimers here.]
>
> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor?

Just long enough to turn off the blinking.

> * do you find it uncomfortable?
>   (if "no", you can skip the next question.)

Yes.

> * do you think it is an imposition to put:
>     (blink-cursor-mode 0)
>   in ~/.emacs to turn it off?

No.

> * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)?
>   if so, which?

No.

> * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort?
>   (i'm looking for correlation info, such as:
>     shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable
>     shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries
>   in the response.)

Shape isn't important.  Blinking drives me batty.

> * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to
>   change during an editing session?  if so, how often?

No.

> * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect
>   your (dis)comfort?  (again, looking for correlation info.)

I only use one frame.  When I watch people with many open windows (Emacs or
not) I get very distracted if they have a cursor blinking in each one.