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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Message #8 received at 56507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 56507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56507: Suggestions for the "Options" menu
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 05:34:42 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:49:39 -0500
> 
> Suggestions for the "Options" menu:
> 
>     1. Remove "Highlight Active Region".
> 
>     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.

Cursor blinking control is definitely not standard.

Anyway, I object to changing this on these grounds, because by this
logic we could remove any setting from that menu.
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