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cursor custom group: bad labels and help text


From: Drew Adams
Subject: cursor custom group: bad labels and help text
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:37:26 -0800

emacs -q

M-x customize-group cursor

1. "Delay in seconds." is a poor tag for `blink-cursor-delay' - it
   says nothing about "cursor" or "blink", and gives no indication of
   which Lisp option is involved. I thought that the "friendly" was
   supposed to sytematically reflect the Lisp name (that is, be the
   same, modulo capitalization). Finally, there should be no period in
   the name.

2. "Blink interval in seconds." - similarly to "Delay in seconds".

3. "Hourglass pointer" - The help doesn't say when (under what
   circumstances) the pointer is changed to an hourglass. At least in
   Windows, I haven't yet seen the hourglass, after turning this on.

4. "Blink Cursor Alist" - The help doesn't explain what OFF-STATE is -
   is it a function?  What does it do? How does it work? Not clear.

5. Capitalization of these options is not consistent - sometimes Title
   Capitalization Is Used, and sometimes Sentence captialization is
   used.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc
(3.3) --cflags -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include -I../.
./tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include -I../../zlib-1.2.2/incl
ude'





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