Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Does anyone else agree that this option should be in the Options menu?
>
> What do other applications do about this?  My version of mozilla has
> no way to change whether the cursor blinks, but it is rather old.
>  
Very few applications let you change the type of cursor they use. Those 
that do, will bury the option somewhere within their equivalent of 
`customize', because they expect that the user will set it to their 
preference once, then never need to touch it again. If mozilla has this 
as an option, I expect you have to delve into the configuration files 
for it.  It is probably worth making the cursor type a custom option at 
least, it appears not to be now (I'm looking at default-cursor-type, 
maybe that's the wrong setting).

As others have pointed out, it is more common to have a blinking bar 
cursor when text is set to insert, and to use block cursor to indicate 
overwrite mode for those applications that use a blinking cursor. 
cua-mode already has code for changing the cursor based on whether we 
are inserting or overwriting (or it did last time I looked), it might be 
worth extracting the relevant code from there and turning it on by default.