Subject: bug#49332: No mention in manual of how to make text blink

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 05:25:36 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:57:07 +0800
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> LI> In Emacs, if you want to make text
> LI> blink, you have to write code to blink the text (with timers and stuff),
> 
> Actually all that is needed is the face for the cursor mentioned in
> frame.el just needs to be shared with the rest of Emacs.

No, because the way Emacs makes the cursor blink has nothing to do
with faces.  See blink-cursor-mode, which is a separate feature,
orthogonal with faces.

> I.e., if other faces could also use the cursor's blinking face,
> then I could even add blinking in addition to just

There's no such thing as "cursor's blinking face" in Emacs.