Re: INFORMAL SURVEY: blinking cursor

[Klaus Zeitler]

>>>>> "Thien-Thi" == Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
    Thien-Thi> 
    Thien-Thi> * have you tried using emacs w/ the blinking box cursor?

yes, I use it all the time (I've used a code snippet to achieve this years
before it was officially added)

    Thien-Thi> * do you find it uncomfortable?
    Thien-Thi>   (if "no", you can skip the next question.)

not at all

    Thien-Thi> * do you use another shape cursor (such as vertical bar)?
    Thien-Thi>   if so, which?

no, the default is perfect for me. I could live with a horizontal bar, but I 
loathe vertical bars.

    Thien-Thi> * how do the shape and the blinking affect your (dis)comfort?
    Thien-Thi>   (i'm looking for correlation info, such as:
    Thien-Thi>     shape: box, blinking: on, i-find-it: unbearable
    Thien-Thi>     shape: vertical bar, blinking: on, i-find-it: no-worries
    Thien-Thi>   in the response.)

perfect defaults for me (only one window, one frame, default rate is ok)
(another nice feature is that cursor changes color in overwrite-mode)

    Thien-Thi> * is cursor blinking a feature you would be inclined to
    Thien-Thi>   change during an editing session?  if so, how often?

no

    Thien-Thi> * how do the number of frames visible and the blinking affect
    Thien-Thi>   your (dis)comfort?  (again, looking for correlation info.)

I estimate my average of the number of frames in a longer session is
somewhere around 5. I use frames to organize my work and the blinking cursor
helps me not to lose track.

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