Am 07.03.2011 um 01:02 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > Stephan Witt wrote: >>> it doesn't meet the requests i have seen up to now. the people asking for >>> this >>> feature wants generally much wider cursor than you propose - closer to >>> block cursor. >> >> I cannot believe that a 4 pixel wide cursor makes sense when > > i can't understand 4 pixels at any normal zoom, but funny enough just next > mail in users list ;)
I know. ;) >> using 120% zoom. > > does this value have any meaning if you dont know which particular font is > used? Of course not. But I don't know of any editor adapting the cursor width to the font size. To adapt it to screen display zoom makes sense I believe. >> A possibility - nevertheless I tried to avoid another RC variable - >> would be to introduce the RC variable with the option to choose automatic >> cursor width >> or a arbitrary fixed width. Should I prepare that? > > so instead of one you propose two now? :) No. Simply use automatic scaling when the width is zero. > anyway, my acceptance for 2.0 was due to minimal possibility of regressions > introduced > when we have RC variable for width. for any magic computations its too late. > even stupid > spellcheck underline had many iterations and rc2 is not good experimental > sand. The computation I propose is the same as for the line thickness of the foreign language marker. > if its controversial issue, we can postpone it to 2.1 discussions. Surely. The more nasty issue than the fixed versus automatic cursor width is the prefs interface. The edit control pane it belongs to has heavily hand coded interface layout. No fun. Stephan
