GNU bug report logs - #77224
[PATCH] New minor mode 'cursor-indicators-mode'

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Message #224 received at 77224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dancol <at> dancol.org, mail <at> daniel-mendler.de,
 juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#77224: [PATCH] New minor mode 'cursor-indicators-mode'
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:08:41 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 77224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  dancol <at> dancol.org,  mail <at> daniel-mendler.de,
>>   juri <at> linkov.net
>> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:41:15 -0600
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>>  Let's please discuss your ideas before you implement them, to make
>>  sure you don't work on some ideas that we might object to.
>> 
>> Sure.
>> 
>> The code needs to run each time the cursor moves, (is there
>> a function/code that do this?) and each time user changes window
>> (because cursor color is not buffer-local).
>
> I understand the general idea, but did you have more detailed ideas
> for how to implement that?

Maybe in a kind of loop?
I'm still thinking.

Another idea is to make the cursor color buffer local.

> And I'm not sure I understand why cursor movement needs this to run,
> since the cursor appearance doesn't depend on its position, it depends
> on state of overwrite-mode, buffer-read-only, and other similar state
> variables, which don't change with buffer or cursor position.  So what
> am I missing?

Because I had planned to implement this part of the TODO for this
package (since I think it fits for this):

  (L848) ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at EOL and EOB

Honestly, I'm getting a little tired, so I'm going to put this on pause
until I come up with an idea or someone wants to work on it.

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