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cursor custom group: bad labels and help text
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Drew Adams |
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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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