Jason Rumney wrote, If we added everyone's pet option to the Options menu, ...
It is not so simple. It is misleading to think of this as an `any person pet option'. It is not like whether someone prefers to use `dodgerblue3' or `dodgerblue4' as the background for his or her `w3-style-face-00001'. For bug reports, I specifically start Emacs without any options, except that I cannot stand blinking cursors so I use "-Q" or "-q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'". Moreover, I find it very easy to locate a standard box cursor that does not blink, whether in Emacs or in other programs. Evidentally, there are some people who cannot find such things, just as there are people who avoid Web pages with <blink> text. That is why the option exists. New users will be used to blinking cursors from the other apps they use ... We did not have blinking cursors when I was a new user and I do not see them when I try out new programs. For example, I just ran `camorama' and it has a solid cursor. Indeed, I have never seen a blinking cursor on this X Windows display other than in Emacs. (Which is good. Obviously, Luc and I are not the only people who dislike blinking cursors.) The option should return to what it was, (blink-cursor-mode 0) but if not that, then the blinking cursor should be easy to turn off when you do not have a .emacs file and have not yet learned how to write one. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel