GNU bug report logs - #56507
Suggestions for the "Options" menu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 01:50:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 56507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56507: Suggestions for the "Options" menu
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:42:10 +0100

>>>>> Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

    >> 2. Remove "Blink Cursor".
    >> 
    >> For both of these, this is the standard behavior in almost any
    >> text editor, and any user that wants to customize them can and
    >> will do it without the menu.

    > None of the text editors that I tried has a blinking cursor by
    > default.  Maybe because they use the system settings where I
    > disabled cursor blinking in Keyboard preferences.  So this menu
    > item could be removed not sooner than Emacs will respect these
    > system settings as well.

Please don't remove Blink Cursor from the Menu bar. I set the cursor to
blink via my ~/.emacs; however, I often want to stop temporarily the
cursor from blinking and this I do this via the menu.

Why remove something that has worked well over the years? Who gains?

Best wishes

Colin Baxter.
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