bug#16764: 24.3.50; Insertion point stops flashing when Emacs not hung -- please reconsider this new default behaviour

[N. Jackson]

At 16:04 -0400 on Saturday 2014-02-15, Drew Adams wrote:

> FYI, this is the discussion thread that led to that change in default
> behavior:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-07/msg00529.html

Thanks for the link to the earlier discussion Drew.

For me conservation of energy is a compelling reason for stopping the
blinking after some period of inactivity.