>>>>> "Thien-Thi" == Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thien-Thi> Thien-Thi> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor?
yes, I use it all the time (I've used a code snippet to achieve this years before it was officially added) Thien-Thi> * do you find it uncomfortable? Thien-Thi> (if "no", you can skip the next question.) not at all Thien-Thi> * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)? Thien-Thi> if so, which? no, the default is perfect for me. I could live with a horizontal bar, but I loathe vertical bars. Thien-Thi> * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort? Thien-Thi> (i'm looking for correlation info, such as: Thien-Thi> shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable Thien-Thi> shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries Thien-Thi> in the response.) perfect defaults for me (only one window, one frame, default rate is ok) (another nice feature is that cursor changes color in overwrite-mode) Thien-Thi> * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to Thien-Thi> change during an editing session? if so, how often? no Thien-Thi> * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect Thien-Thi> your (dis)comfort? (again, looking for correlation info.) I estimate my average of the number of frames in a longer session is somewhere around 5. I use frames to organize my work and the blinking cursor helps me not to lose track. -- ------------------------------------------ | Klaus Zeitler Lucent Technologies | ------------------------------------------ --- To decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove one of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs