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

[Kim F. Storm]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> I think that the basic visibility would also be ensured if the cursor
> was a hollow box cursor.  It is still more conspicuous than the
> "usual" blinking line cursor that is common with other editors, and I
> think I could work with it as a default.

I made such a change some time back, but it was reverted because some
fonts (Japanese or Chinese IIRC) looked horrible with a hollow cursor.

The hollow cursor is ok for cursor-in-non-selected-windows, but
not as the default cursor.

>
> "Hide/Show" is something more appropriate for things like outline
> mode, I'd say.  "Appearance" would be a reasonably good name, and the
> cursor type belongs in there.  

Agree.

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