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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:58:42 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> In the emacs manual there is plenty of mention of how to make the cursor blink.
> Alas, e.g.,
> (info "(emacs) Face Customization") and (info "(emacs) Faces")
> neglect mentioning how to make text blink.
> I recall even a VT100 could be made to make text blink.

There are VT codes for blinking text, but documenting that would be out
of scope for the Emacs manual.  In Emacs, if you want to make text
blink, you have to write code to blink the text (with timers and stuff),
and that's also out of scope for this manual entry.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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