Subject: Re: bug#5931: Turning off blink-cursor-mode does not stop blink-cursor-timer immediately

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:56:02 -0400

> Which can lead to some problems.

Could you give us some details of the kinds of problem you encountered?

> Could we please just stop this timer
> when turning off blink-cursor-mode?
> Just add a line like
>       (when (timerp blink-cursor-timer) (cancel-timer blink-cursor-timer))

I'd rather call blink-cursor-end, then.
And yes, that would seem like a good idea.  But I'd still like to know
why you think it's important enough.

        Stefan