Re: bad UI defaults

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Does this make the cursor blink to completely off?

I bet it does, but it's the wrong fix, as it completely disables the
blink-cursor-alist functionality.

The proper fix is to delete the code which calculates the off-state
cursor.  Here is a correct patch:

Index: xdisp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/xdisp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.843
diff -c -r1.843 xdisp.c
*** xdisp.c     9 Jul 2003 14:51:29 -0000       1.843
--- xdisp.c     27 Aug 2003 20:26:13 -0000
***************
*** 18707,18712 ****
--- 18707,18713 ----
        return FRAME_BLINK_OFF_CURSOR (f);
      }
  
+ #if 0
    /* Finally perform built-in cursor blinking:
         filled box      <->   hollow box
         wide [h]bar     <->   narrow [h]bar
***************
*** 18721,18726 ****
--- 18722,18728 ----
        *width = 1;
        return cursor_type;
      }
+ #endif
  
    return NO_CURSOR;
  }

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Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk